Stories In The Time Of Cholera
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Stories In The Time Of Cholera
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Author : Charles L. Briggs
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2003-01-16
Stories In The Time Of Cholera written by Charles L. Briggs and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-16 with Social Science categories.
Cholera, although it can kill an adult through dehydration in half a day, is easily treated. Yet in 1992-93, some five hundred people died from cholera in the Orinoco Delta of eastern Venezuela. In some communities, a third of the adults died in a single night, as anthropologist Charles Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs, a Venezuelan public health physician, reveal in their frontline report. Why, they ask in this moving and thought-provoking account, did so many die near the end of the twentieth century from a bacterial infection associated with the premodern past? It was evident that the number of deaths resulted not only from inadequacies in medical services but also from the failure of public health officials to inform residents that cholera was likely to arrive. Less evident were the ways that scientists, officials, and politicians connected representations of infectious diseases with images of social inequality. In Venezuela, cholera was racialized as officials used anthropological notions of "culture" in deflecting blame away from their institutions and onto the victims themselves. The disease, the space of the Orinoco Delta, and the "indigenous ethnic group" who suffered cholera all came to seem somehow synonymous. One of the major threats to people's health worldwide is this deadly cycle of passing the blame. Carefully documenting how stigma, stories, and statistics circulate across borders, this first-rate ethnography demonstrates that the process undermines all the efforts of physicians and public health officials and at the same time contributes catastrophically to epidemics not only of cholera but also of tuberculosis, malaria, AIDS, and other killers. The authors have harnessed their own outrage over what took place during the epidemic and its aftermath in order to make clear the political and human stakes involved in the circulation of narratives, resources, and germs.
Stories In The Time Of Cholera
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Author : Charles L. Briggs
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2003-01-16
Stories In The Time Of Cholera written by Charles L. Briggs and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-16 with Social Science categories.
Chronicles the 1992-1993 cholera epidemic in Venezuela.
Love In The Time Of Cholera
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Author : Gabriel García Márquez
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2014-10-15
Love In The Time Of Cholera written by Gabriel García Márquez and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-15 with Fiction categories.
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • "A love story of astonishing power" (Newsweek), the acclaimed modern literary classic by the beloved Nobel Prize-winning author. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez S Love In The Time Of Cholera
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Author : Tom Fahy
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2003-04-10
Gabriel Garcia Marquez S Love In The Time Of Cholera written by Tom Fahy and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
A brilliant idea--short, perceptive books which tell you what you need to know about some of the most vibrant and challenging writing around today--a bit like having a reading group in your pocket. IAN RANKIN
Love In The Time Of Cholera
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Author : Gabriel Garcia Marquez
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2014-03-06
Love In The Time Of Cholera written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-06 with Fiction categories.
Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals in his masterpiece Love in the Time of Cholera. 'It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love' Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza's impassioned advances and married Dr Juvenal Urbino instead. During that half-century, Florentino has fallen into the arms of many delighted women, but has loved none but Fermina. Having sworn his eternal love to her, he lives for the day when he can court her again. When Fermina's husband is killed trying to retrieve his pet parrot from a mango tree, Florentino seizes his chance to declare his enduring love. But can young love find new life in the twilight of their lives? 'The most important writer of fiction in any language' Bill Clinton 'An exquisite writer, wise, compassionate and extremely funny' Sunday Telegraph 'An amazing celebration of the many kinds of love between men and women' The Times
Stories In The Time Of Cholera
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Author : Charles L. Briggs
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2003
Stories In The Time Of Cholera written by Charles L. Briggs and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Social Science categories.
Chronicles the 1992-1993 cholera epidemic in Venezuela.
Memories Of My Melancholy Whores
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Author : Gabriel Garcia Marquez
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2014-03-06
Memories Of My Melancholy Whores written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-06 with Fiction categories.
Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a powerful novel about a man who so far has never felt love from Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of the One Hundred Years of Solitude. 'The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin' On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a newspaper columnist in Colombia decides to give himself 'a night of mad love with a virgin adolescent'. But on seeing this beautiful girl he falls deeply under her spell. His love for his 'Delgadina' causes him to recall all the women he has paid to perform acts of love. And so the columnist realises he must chronicle the life of his heart, to offer it freely to the world. . . 'Marquez describes this amorous, sometimes disturbing journey with the grace and vigour of a master storyteller' Daily Mail 'Marquez is wonderful on the transformative and redemptive powers of love. . . storytelling magic' Tatler 'Marquez writes in this lyrical, magical language that no-one else can do' Salman Rushie
One Hundred Years Of Solitude
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Author : Gabriel García Márquez
language : en
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Release Date : 2022-10-11
One Hundred Years Of Solitude written by Gabriel García Márquez and has been published by Blackstone Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-11 with Fiction categories.
One of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America. Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility, the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth—these universal themes dominate the novel. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an account of the history of the human race.
Chronicle Of A Death Foretold
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Author : Gabriel García Márquez
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2014-10-15
Chronicle Of A Death Foretold written by Gabriel García Márquez and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-15 with Fiction categories.
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • From the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes the gripping story of the murder of a young aristocrat that puts an entire society—not just a pair of murderers—on trial. A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister. Yet if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, why did no one intervene to stop it? The more that is learned, the less is understood, as the story races to its inexplicable conclusion.
Mexico In The Time Of Cholera
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Author : Donald Fithian Stevens
language : en
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Release Date : 2019-05-15
Mexico In The Time Of Cholera written by Donald Fithian Stevens and has been published by University of New Mexico Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-15 with History categories.
This captivating study tells Mexico’s best untold stories. The book takes the devastating 1833 cholera epidemic as its dramatic center and expands beyond this episode to explore love, lust, lies, and midwives. Parish archives and other sources tell us human stories about the intimate decisions, hopes, aspirations, and religious commitments of Mexican men and women as they made their way through the transition from the Viceroyalty of New Spain to an independent republic. In this volume Stevens shows how Mexico assumed a new place in Atlantic history as a nation coming to grips with modernization and colonial heritage, helping us to understand the paradox of a country with a reputation for fervent Catholicism that moved so quickly to disestablish the Church.