Saving Charlotte: A Mother and the Power of Intuition - Rilegato

De Jong, Pia

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ISBN 10: 0393609154 ISBN 13: 9780393609158

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2017

Riassunto

On a still summer night in a seventeenth-century canal house in Amsterdam’s old quarter, Pia de Jong gives birth to a delicate, bright-eyed baby girl with a riddle on her back—a pale blue spot that soon multiplies. In a bare, air-conditioned hospital room, a doctor reveals the devastating answer: it is a rare and deadly form of leukemia, often treated with chemotherapy, a cure nearly as dangerous to a newborn as the disease itself.Pia and her husband Robbert make an intuitive decision. They do not subject Charlotte to chemotherapy; they bring her home. They transform their canal house into a sanctuary where Charlotte can live surrounded by love and strength, where Pia can give her a chance to live. In return, Charlotte gives her mother the greatest gift of all: purpose.Saving Charlotte is the story of a daughter’s fight to survive, and of a mother’s fight to live a life of passion and meaning alongside her.

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Recensione

"...[a] deeply felt memoir..." --Daily Mirror

"...her prose is vibrant and precise..." --Times Literary Supplement

L'autore

Pia de Jong is a best-selling novelist and a regular contributor to the Washington Post. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with her husband Robbert Dijkgraaf, director of the Institute for Advanced Study, and their three children, including Charlotte.

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0393609154
• ISBN 13: 9780393609158
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 255