If
A Mother's Memoir
An eloquent, heartfelt account of a young boy's fight with cancer and of a mother's determination and resilience, which see their family through to his recovery.As her ten-year-old son sits at the kitchen table one evening, Lise Marzouk inspects his mouth and discovers an unusual growth, which doctors later confirm is cancerous. When he is hospitalized at the Curie Institute in Paris for lymphoma treatment, Lise finds herself torn between two worlds, one at his bedside, and the other at home with her two younger children, struggling to maintain a sense of stability in their lives. And so she writes-of their fears and doubts, but also of their…
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Weitere Autoren: Hunter, Adriana (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-59051-096-4
- EAN: 9781590510964
- Produktnummer: 29876600
- Verlag: Other Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 698 KB
Über den Autor
Lise Marzouk has published several nonfiction titles in France on myths and the imaginary. If is her first memoir and English language debut.Adriana Hunter studied French and Drama at the University of London. She has translated more than eighty books, including Véronique Olmi's Bakhita and Hervé Le Tellier's Eléctrico W, winner of the French-American Foundation's 2013 Translation Prize in Fiction. She lives in Kent, England.
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