François Lelord

Hector and the Search for Happiness (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Garcia, Lorenza

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

With over two million copies sold worldwide, Hector and the Search for Happiness is a modern fable about the nature of joy and is now a major motion picture.



'Intelligently naïve' Marie Claire



Can we learn how to be happy? Hector is a successful young psychiatrist. He's very good at treating patients in real need of his help. But many people he sees have no health problems: they're just deeply dissatisfied with their lives. Hector can't do much for them, and it's beginning to depress him. So when a patient tells him he looks in need of a holiday, Hector decides to set off round the world to find out what makes people everywhere happy (and sad), and whether there is such a thing as the secret of true happiness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Gallic Books
• Seitenzahl: 181
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781906040994
• Artikelnr.: 38427863

Autorenporträt

François Lelord studied and practiced psychiatry in Paris, and was a consultant for companies interested in reducing stress for their employees. The huge success of Hector and the Search for Happiness led him to spend more time writing and travelling, ending up in Vietnam during the Sars epidemic. There he practiced psychiatry for a French NGO and met his future wife Phuong. Today they live in Thailand. Hector and the Search for Happiness was adapted for film in 2015, starring Simon Pegg and Rosamund Pike.

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Rezensionen

'A series of philosophical bonnes bouches ... their effect is unexpectedly cheering' The Independent

'Even the most aloof, the most detached reader will be won over by this book' Cosmopolitan

'Provides a dollop of warm, fuzzy, feel-good escapism' Woman

'Intelligently naïve' Marie Claire

'A fast-paced, enchanting story. Lelord himself is a psychiatrist, and his interest in the human mind is infectious' Book Page

'A feel-good gem . . . Francois Lelord has created a 21st-century hero' Good Housekeeping