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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Random House Reader's Circle)
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| Editorial Reviews: | | |  | This compelling and inspiring book, now in a deluxe paperback edition, shows how one person can work wonders. In Mountains Beyond Mountains, Pulitzer Prize?winning author Tracy Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who loves the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it.
In medical school, Paul Farmer found his life?s calling: to cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. Kidder?s magnificent account takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba, and Russia as Farmer changes minds and practices through his dedication to the philosophy that ?the only real nation is humanity.? At the heart of this book is the example of a life based on hope and on an understanding of the truth of the Haitian proverb ?Beyond mountains there are mountains??as you solve one problem, another problem presents itself, and so you go on and try to solve that one too.
?Mountains Beyond Mountains unfolds with a force of gathering revelation,? says Annie Dillard, and Jonathan Harr notes, ?[Paul Farmer] wants to change the world. Certainly this luminous and powerful book will change the way you see it.? | |
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| | Tracy Kidder is an amazing writer. I wish I could write this review 1/10 as well as he writes a book. This is a complex subject which he thoroughly understands. This book reads more like fiction than a non-fiction book pulling you into a story which needs to be told.
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| | I wansn't totally satisfied with this product. I thought it would look better without much worn-out marks. Well, it wasn't too bad. It wasn't like it had any missing pages or ripped covers. So I give it rating for so-so.
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| | Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Random House Reader's Circle) is not light reading. It forced me to examine my own conscience and values - made me look at my own life's work in a really honest way - and, at the same time, it inspired me - affirmed my long-held belief that our purpose while we're here is to use our gifts and energies to help one another.
The hero of this book, Dr. Paul Farmer, tells the author, "I have fought the long defeat and brought other people on to fight the long defeat, and I'm not going to stop because we keep losing...You know, people from our background...we're used to being on a victory team, and actually what we're really trying to do in PIH is to make common cause with the losers... We want to be on the winning team, but at the risk of turning our backs on the losers, no, it's not worth it. So you fight the long defeat." Where many people seem to think it makes the most sense to write off the sick in poor countries as hopeless and, instead, focus money and energies in the more-developed nations, Farmer takes the completely opposite view - that the world health community should START with the poor when it considers where to spend limited monies and energies - that the poor should be given the preferential treatment, not the rich.
Mountains Beyond Mountains is thought-provoking and disturbing. It also is full of hope. It shows the potential one person has for making a real difference in the world.
Karen Molenaar Terrell
author of Blessings:: Adventures of a Madcap Christian Scientist
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| | Wow! Talk about an amazing human being. I felt so unaccomplished, and yet very inspired.
| | | This book reads like a thriller; you can't put it down. The depressing thing is that years after it was written, the situation in Haiti has not improved! Will it ever? Can we ever do enough? Even if we spend as much time, energy and resources on it as Dr. Farmer?
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