A new post each Sunday as we ask our staff.....
"What's Your Favorite Book?"
Blindness by José Saramago
From Nobel Prize–winning author José Saramago, a magnificent, mesmerizing parable of lossThe book portraits amazingly human nature from kindness to the scariest and violent side of Humankind. I love the way the novel is written the fact that there are no paragraphs, chapters of full stop amazed me. Also, the way the author describes the scenes is incredibly real and fantastically written that you can smell, you can perfectly see as it was really all said in the book. Also, there is a movie with Julien Moore based on the book, but no comparison with the greatness of the book.
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracey Kidder
This is the inspiring biography of Dr. Paul Farmer, founder of Partners in Health, a global medical nonprofit. Dr. Farmer is a physician/anthropologist who has dedicated his life to providing quality healthcare for the poor, a luxury usually reserved only for the wealthy and privileged of the world. The book narrates his constant travels between his rural clinic in Haiti and his clinical rounds in Boston, where is the Director of Infectious Disease at Harvard Medical School. If you are interested in medicine, anthropology or human rights, this book will absolutely inspire you.
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