28
Stories of AIDS in Africa
Nolen, Stephanie
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For the past six years, Stephanie Nolen has traced AIDS across Africa, and 28 is the result: an unprecedented, uniquely human portrait of the continent in crisis. Through riveting, anecdotal stories, she brings to life men, women, and children involved in
BOOK SYNOPSIS
For the past six years, Stephanie Nolen has traced AIDS across Africa, and 28 is the result: an unprecedented, uniquely human portrait of the continent in crisis. Through riveting, anecdotal stories, she brings to life men, women, and children involved in every AIDS arena, making them familiar. And she explores the effects of an epidemic that well exceeds the Black Plague in scope, and the reasons why we must care about what happens.
In every instance, Nolen has borne witness to the stories she relates, whether riding with truck driver Mohammed Ali on a journey across Kenya; following Tigist Haile Michael, a smart, shy fourteen-year-old Ethiopian orphan fending for herself and her baby brother on the slum streets of Addis Ababa; chronicling the efforts of Alice Kadzanja, an HIV-positive nurse in Malawi; or interviewing Nelson Mandelas family about coming to terms with his own sons death from AIDS. Nolens stories reveal how the disease works and spreads; how it is inextricably tied to conflict and famine and to the diverse cultures it has ravaged; how treatment works, and how people who cant get treatment fight to stay alive with courage and dignity against huge odds.
Imagine the entire population of New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles combined infected with HIV, and its magnitude in Africa is clear. Writing with power and simplicity, Stephanie Nolen makes us listen, allows us to understand, and inspires us to care. Timely and transformative, 28: Stories of AIDS in Africa is essential reading for anyone concerned about the fate of humankind. Click here to learn more about Stephanie Nolen and her book, 28: Stories of AIDS in Africa. Click here to listen to an interview with author Stephanie Nolen, as she talks about some of the people she has met covering AIDS in Africa.
BOOK REVIEWS
This is a formidable book of record . . . from the tiny virus, via 28 individual human stories, to an entire continent. The stories will tear you apart before putting you back together, fully-armed and ready to go to war with a virus more dangerous than any W.M.D.Bono Provocative stuff on a topic where most writing feels both distancing and not terribly profound.Salon.com
Nolens stories give a human face to HIV/AIDS in Africa and enrich our understanding of the disease in intangible ways."San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
"These stories offer astonishing glimpses of the people of a continent brought to its knees.graceful, often memorable portraits are chosen from among the lucky few who came back from the dead."Los Angeles Times Book Review
"gives the epidemic a human face-more precisely, 28 human faces, one for each million Africans estimated to be infected with HIV.an informative and a powerful read, which will help Western readers connect personally with a crisis that too often seems remote."Library Journal, starred review Magnificent, inspiring, informative. Nolen opens the essential door to the brave, suffering, human reality of the African AIDS crisis.John le Carré
If a war had killed 20 million soldiers, and left 28 million more dying of wounds, wed call it the worst such tragedy since World War II. This is the scale of AIDS in Africa. Stephanie Nolen brings this story to life in a moving, deeply human way. Through these portraitsshrewdly chosen, varied, and sometimes startlingly unexpectedshe artfully puts a series of human faces on the greatest health crisis of our time.Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopolds Ghost and Bury the Chains
The marvelous gift of Stephanie Nolen's 28 is that it allows the reader a chance to mingle, a chance to hob-nob, with fascinating and eloquent people from across sub-Saharan Africa. Professors and sex-workers, truckers and doctors, old ladies and orphaned children, celebrities and beggars, all raise their voices here. The music of these combined voices is intelligent and pained; it sings to us of suffering, stigma, compassion, courage, and heartrending love.Melissa Fay Greene, author of There Is No Me Without You
"Everyone needs to read this book. It is essential reading in the Age of AIDS, never earnest, and, whilst often painful, full of humane and painstakingly researched detail."Emma Thompson
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0802715982
ISBN(13-digit): 9780802715982
Dewey Decimal: 362.1/9697920092267
Library of Congress: bl2007007314
Book Publisher: St Martins Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 375
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