Now and at the Hour of Our Death

English

ISBN: 1908276630

EAN: 9781908276636

Category: Health & Fitness / Diseases / Cancer/Social Science / Death & Dying/Medical / Clinical Medicine

Publisher: And Other Stories

Release Date: 09/03/2015

Synopsis: <div>A nurse sleeps at the bedside of his dying patients; a wife deceives her husband by never telling him he has cancer; a bedridden man has to be hidden from his demented and amorous eighty-year-old wife. In her poignant and genre-busting debut, Susana Moreira Marques confronts us with our own mortality and inspires us to think about what is important. Accompanying a palliative care team, Moreira Marques travelled to Tráaacute;s-os-Montes, a forgotten corner of northern Portugal, a rural area abandoned by the young. Crossing great distances where eagles circle over the roads, she visits villages where rural ways of life are disappearing. She listens to families facing death and gives us their stories in their words as well as through her own meditations. Brilliantly blending the immediacy of oral history with the sensibility of philosophical reportage, Moreira Marques' book speaks about death in a fresh way.</div>

Now and at the Hour of Our Death

Illustrated: No

Format: eBook - EPUB

Edition: 1

Pages: 128