There is No Me Without You - Greene, Melissa F.
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In a dusty tin-walled compound on the outskirts of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a middle-class woman named Haregewoin Teferra suffered back-to-back losses: first her husband died of a heart attack; then her beloved 23-year-old daughter was consumed by an unnamed sickness. In grief, Haregewoin turned to the church and asked to be taken into seclusion. Instead of allowing the bereft woman to leave the world, the church presented her with two teenage orphans and asked her to house them. Over the startled protests of her friends and family, Haregewoin said yes. Once she opened her gate to the first two…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
In a dusty tin-walled compound on the outskirts of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a middle-class woman named Haregewoin Teferra suffered back-to-back losses: first her husband died of a heart attack; then her beloved 23-year-old daughter was consumed by an unnamed sickness. In grief, Haregewoin turned to the church and asked to be taken into seclusion. Instead of allowing the bereft woman to leave the world, the church presented her with two teenage orphans and asked her to house them. Over the startled protests of her friends and family, Haregewoin said yes. Once she opened her gate to the first two children, she never really managed to close it again. Her compound became known as a haven: here was a woman who did not run away from HIV-positive individuals and AIDS-orphaned children. From across the country, children were brought to Haregewoin on foot, by bus, or by donkey cart.
Autorenporträt
Melissa Fay Greene, arbeitet als Journalistin u. a. für »New Yorker «, »Washington Post«, »Newsweek« und »New York Time Magazine «. Sie wurde in den USA mehrfach für ihre Arbeiten ausgezeichnet, in denen sie sich mit sozialer Ungerechtigkeit auseinandersetzt und Menschen porträtiert, deren Leben sich durch ihr Engagement für Gerechtigkeit grundlegend gewandelt hat. Melissa Fay Greene lebt mit ihrem Mann und ihren sieben Kindern, von denen sie eines in Bulgarien und zwei in Äthiopien adoptiert hat, in Atlanta.
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"Melissa Greene is a journalist who writes with the lyricism of a poet and the skill of a novelist-Her writing is characterized by a genuine love of whom and what she is writing about as well as a genuine love for the act of writing itself. This is a rare combination and the result is a rare reading experience." (Washington Post Book World)