Description
Life can be fractured and turned up in a second, as shown in these stories about the persons who survived a tsunami; the hell of the attack on the World Trade Center; quadriplegia after an unlikely fatal accident; giving birth with AIDS; the disappearance of a daughter, and three deaths and one resurrection from covid-19.
Very rarely, journalism achieves a perfect balance between pain and hope, despair and good will; the texts reunited in this book accomplish it.
The days of terror of a tsunami survivor are tell in these pages; along with the horror and salvation of a woman that experienced the attack on the World Trade Center; the immense spiritual strength of a man after suffering a senseless, deadly car accident; the battle of a woman with AIDS; the suffering mystery of a young girl that disappeared in the Mexican Caribbean; and the fierce fight against the death and subsequent resurrection of a covid-19 patient. The renowned journalist Silvia Cherem uses all her skills and narrative sensitivity to trace the most complex features of human beings. Cherem shares a series of testimonies where physical suffering and existential fracture are transformed into a new opportunity to overcome the crisis. The people living these realities never give up after that moment that tore their lives apart. The readers have in their hands a book that makes fiction look very fragile. Here the intense memorial of survival prevails, along with mortal challenge and desire to live. It is a work written from the heart of its protagonists: unforgettable, extraordinary.
Author: Silvia Cherem
Publisher: Aguilar
Published: 12/06/2022
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.20h x 5.90w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9786073800419
ISBN10: 607380041X
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Self-Help | Motivational & Inspirational
- Self-Help | Personal Growth | Success
- Biography & Autobiography | Survival
About the Author
Silvia Cherem, periodista y escritora, es Premio Nacional de Periodismo 2005, en el área de Crónica y tres veces semifinalista del Premio Nuevo Periodismo de la Fundación para un Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano fundada por Gabriel García Márquez. Obtuvo el Premio Instituto Cultural México Israel, la Medalla Liderazgo Anáhuac en Comunicación, el Premio Mujer Maguén David y es presidenta del International Women's Forum Capítulo México. Su escritura se distingue por desnudar el alma de sus personajes, tiene la sensibilidad, la intuición y la garra para preguntar lo que nadie se atreve; devela siempre lo más determinante de una vida. Como cronista logra que en sus relatos se respire, se huela y se sienta como si el lector estuviera inmerso en el instante que arquea la existencia. En 1994 comenzó a publicar crónicas seriadas, entrevistas de largo aliento y reportajes especiales de temáticas nacionales e internacionales de índole cultural, política, científica y social, en los periódicos del Grupo Reforma.