Roger Rees

No Turning Back (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Louise Davitt, a young Australian anthropologist, and Zeno Wolde, an Ethiopian doctor and fellow anthropologist, research and explore isolated villages and tribal lands in Ethiopia, making fascinating discoveries about the people, the environment and themselves. While working for reform to lift poor peasants out of poverty, they fall in love and marry then have a child. Zeno's work takes him away from home for long stretches of time, then he disappears. Louise visits family in London and is diagnosed with HIV, contracted from Zeno. With effective management and drugs, Louise copes with her serious illness and its stigma - a stigma that at the time in Ethiopia and Kenya, made it impossible for Zeno to seek appropriate treatment. She meets a Norwegian doctor, Haawkon Davos, and builds a new career with its reach and compassion for people with HIV/AIDS, especially across Africa.

'A moving tale of cross-cultural endeavour dealing with problems that for millions of people are all too real. Rees' knowledge of this complex world is evident; his compassion for the powerless shines through.' - Cate Kennedy - author of Sing and Don't Cry: a Mexican Journal

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hybrid Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781925282528
• Artikelnr.: 53217276

Autorenporträt

Roger Rees is an academic who has taught at Australian and US universities. He has published many nonfiction books, articles in journals and scripts for ABC Science Show. He has run a trauma rehabilitation program for people with brain injury, neurological disorders such as primary and secondary MS and for people diagnosed with HIV. This is his first fiction book. He travelled to Ethiopia and walked with the Hamar tribe in preparation for No Turning Back.