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Strength in what remains / Tracy Kidder

By:

Kidder, Tracy

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Random House , c2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: xvii, 277 p. ; 25 cmISBN:

9781400066216

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

92 NIY

LOC classification:

E184.B89 K53 2009

Contents:

Flights -- Gusimbura.

Summary: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder returns with the extraordinary true story of Deo, a young man who arrives in America from Burundi in search of a new life. After surviving a civil war and genocide, he ekes out a precarious existence delivering groceries, living in Central Park, and learning English by reading dictionaries in bookstores until he begins to meet the strangers who will change his life, pointing him eventually in the direction of Columbia University, medical school, and a life devoted to healing.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	92 NIY (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		038694

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-277).

Flights -- Gusimbura.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder returns with the extraordinary true story of Deo, a young man who arrives in America from Burundi in search of a new life. After surviving a civil war and genocide, he ekes out a precarious existence delivering groceries, living in Central Park, and learning English by reading dictionaries in bookstores until he begins to meet the strangers who will change his life, pointing him eventually in the direction of Columbia University, medical school, and a life devoted to healing.

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