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bernardino's review against another edition
5.0
Preciosos acercamiento a la realidad de las personas que viven sus últimos meses de vida en cuidados paliativos.
lauren_endnotes's review
4.0
In this unique book, Susana Moreira Marques compiles the memories, stories, and meditations of people in a home-based palliative care program in northern Portugal. Moreira Marques is a journalist, and she uses this reportage and interview style in the book, constructing layered oral histories of these people who are transitioning into death.
The book opens with a beautiful section entitled Travel Notes about Death. The small sections are interpretations, and meditations on various conversations that Moreira Marques had with the people in the program. It is poetic, and the strongest portion of this book.
*Women In Translation month 2018
The book opens with a beautiful section entitled Travel Notes about Death. The small sections are interpretations, and meditations on various conversations that Moreira Marques had with the people in the program. It is poetic, and the strongest portion of this book.
*Women In Translation month 2018
riskee's review
4.0
The first part was really captivating but it was part of the portraits that really stayed with me. There was so much love in this that I couldn't help but feel overwhelmed with a sense of grief and empathy. If only it had had more portraits...
amselot's review
5.0
This was such a difficult book for me to read. It was really emotional, I cried a lot, and I could not have read it in one sitting. I had long pauses in between even though the book is really short.
I have never read a book like this. It is decidedly about death, but also decidedly about life. And despite how sad and moving many parts were, it was also strangely beautiful and hopeful.
The first part, the travel notes of the author, was not really my cup of tea, but as soon as she got onto the lives of these people, I was hooked. Especially the parts where the people she visited told their story in their own words were heartbreaking and wonderful.
I have never read a book like this. It is decidedly about death, but also decidedly about life. And despite how sad and moving many parts were, it was also strangely beautiful and hopeful.
The first part, the travel notes of the author, was not really my cup of tea, but as soon as she got onto the lives of these people, I was hooked. Especially the parts where the people she visited told their story in their own words were heartbreaking and wonderful.
allaboutthembrains's review
4.0
The first part was really captivating but it was part of the portraits that really stayed with me. There was so much love in this that I couldn't help but feel overwhelmed with a sense of grief and empathy. If only it had had more portraits...
danielasjorge's review
4.0
Life is a series of realizations and endings, not necessarily new beginnings, but sometimes, too. We hear the author's realizations, echoed in the midst of others' endings and realizations. The book is not meant to give insight or to provide a feel-good perception on illness and death... it shares the real and raw reality that accompanies a few people's experiences as death occurs.
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