Susana Moreira Marques

Now and at the Hour of Our Death (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

A nurse sleeps at the bedside of his dying patients; a wife deceives her husband by never telling him he has cancer; a bedridden man has to be hidden from his demented and amorous eighty-year-old wife. In her poignant and genre-busting debut, Susana Moreira Marques confronts us with our own mortality and inspires us to think about what is important. Accompanying a palliative care team, Moreira Marques travelled to Trás-os-Montes, a forgotten corner of northern Portugal, a rural area abandoned by the young. Crossing great distances where eagles circle over the roads, she visits villages where rural ways of life are disappearing. She listens to families facing death and gives us their stories in their words as well as through her own meditations. Brilliantly blending the immediacy of oral history with the sensibility of philosophical reportage, Moreira Marques' book speaks about death in a fresh way.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: And Other Stories
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781908276636
• Artikelnr.: 43190467

Autorenporträt

Susana Moreira Marques is a writer and prize-winning journalist based in Lisbon and writing for Público and Jornal de Negócios. Between 2005 and 2010 Susana lived in London, working with the BBC World Service and also as the London correspondent for the Portuguese newspaper Público. She has won several prizes for her journalism, including the 2012 UNESCO 'Human Rights and Integration' Journalism Award (Portugal). Agora e Na Hora da Nossa Morte (Now and at the Hour of our Death) is her first book and is based on the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation home palliative care project in the Planalto Mirandês, in Trás-os-Montes - a remote region in the north-east of Portugal.