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Van ongenooi na ingenooi is werklikheidsfiksie gebaseer op die ware
verhaal van trauma en verlies en uiteindelike aanvaarding in die lewe
van ’n jong vrou en haar gesin. Dit is ook die verhaal van ware
vriendskap. Ná ’n besoek aan ’n chirurg word ulseratiewe kolitis by
Tanja gediagnoseer en sy moet hoor dat dit reeds haar rektum en kolon
aangetas het. Die dokter hanteer egter nie die saak as spoedeisend nie,
verseker haar dat sy maar kan gaan vakansie hou. Die uiteinde is
katastrofies. Tanja se kolon perforeer en sy sterf byna aan inwendige
bloeding. Tientalle besoeke aan die hospitaal volg en sy moet vir die
res van haar lewe met ’n stomasak saamleef. Ná haar ontslag besef en
ondervind sy watter letsels die ongenooide siekte, trauma en aanhegsel
aan haar liggaam en emosies laat. Van ongenooi na ingenooi is ’n boek
vir:
- Vroue op die eensame reis wat in Noodgevalle of ’n
onkologiekliniek begin het, waarna jy met jouself, God en jou medemens
moet gaan saamleef
- Dié wat al deur groot trauma moes gaan, asook hul gesin en
veral vir hul lewensmaat.
- Lesers wat hulle in ’n “nuwe normaal”bevind – in ’n liggaam
wat waarskynlik nooit weer soos vroeër sal lyk of wees nie
- Die lewensmaats van vroue soos Tanja, asook die familie en
vriende van ernstig siek mense
In Van ongenooi na ingenooi word hoop, innerlike genesing en die
onfeilbare trou van die Drie-enige God verwoord. In hierdie ware
liefdesverhaal reis jy saam van ongenooi na ingenooi.
"In an age of increasing international insecurity, the concept of
home becomes of still greater importance, as does our relationship
with other races and cultures. This account of an American-born
woman of Ukrainian extraction, married for 50 years to a Devon
farmer, offers a small but entrancing vision of what unlikely
meetings of culture, blood and tradition can produce. This wise and
spirited account of one woman's life suggests how old traditions,
transplanted, can become renewed and how brave life choices can
generate creative outcomes. I read Karen's story with the kind of
quiet pleasure that only the truly authentic can deliver." - Salley
Vickers
In the wake of Texas enacting a bill to deny abortions after 6
weeks, Loved and Wanted shines a light on motherhood and the right
to choose. 'Haunting, wild, and quiet at once. A shimmering look at
motherhood, in all gothic pain and glory. I could not stop
reading.' Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women A harrowing account of
one woman's reckoning with life, death and choice in Trump's
America. For readers of Educated and Hillbilly Elegy. In 2017,
Christa Parravani had recently moved her family from California to
West Virginia. Surviving on a teacher's salary, she was already
raising two young children with her husband, screenwriter Anthony
Swofford. Another pregnancy, a year after giving birth to her
second child, came as a shock. Christa had a history of ectopic
pregnancies and was worried that she wouldn't be able to find
adequate medical care. She immediately requested a termination -
but her doctor refused to help. The only doctor who would perform
an abortion made it clear that this would be illicit, not condoned
by her colleagues or their community. In exploring her own choice,
or rather in discovering her lack of it, Christa reveals the
desperate state of female healthcare in contemporary America.
An often overlooked aspect of the Cold War was the extent of
diplomatic espionage that went on in the countries behind the Iron
Curtain. Every Western Diplomat stationed in Soviet-bloc countries
was targeted as a spy by the security apparatus in the respective
countries. With the opening of archives in Eastern Europe, the
extent of this diplomatic espionage can be revealed for the first
time. Ernest H. Latham, Jr. was a career foreign service officer
who served the United States in various posts around the world.
From 1983 to 1987, he served as cultural attache at the American
Embassy in Bucharest. During his time in Romania, Dr. Latham was
targeted as a spy by the brutal Communist dictatorship of Nicolae
Ceausescu and subjected to constant surveillance by the dreaded
Securitate, Ceausescu's secret police. This book is a collection of
the surveillance reports that Dr. Latham was able to obtain from
the Romanian archives following the collapse of the Communist
regime. They reveal the extent of the surveillance to which Western
diplomats were subjected and, more importantly, they reveal a great
deal about the system and society that produced these materials.
With an introduction by Ernest Latham, this book should be
essential reading for students of the Cold War and for anyone
interested in the mindset and functioning of totalitarian regimes
in general.
Killing at its Very Extreme takes the reader to the heart of Dublin
from October 1917 to November 1920, effectively the first phase of
Dublin's War of Independence. It details pivotal aspects at the
outset, then the ramping up of the intelligence war, the upsurge in
raids and assassinations. Vividly depicting mass hunger-strikes,
general strikes, prison escapes, and ruthless executions by the
full-time IRA 'Squad', amid curfews and the functioning of an
audacious alternative government. Intensity builds as the reader is
embedded into Commandant Dick McKee's Dublin Brigade to witness
relentless actions and ambushes. The authors' unprecedented access
lays bare many myths about key players from both sides. The tempo
escalates with deployment of the notorious Black and Tans and
Auxiliaries, as well as a host of cunning political and propaganda
ploys. Desperate plights and horrific reprisals are portrayed, the
effects of mass sectarian pogroms and killings. Tthe sacking of
Balbriggan, the killing of Sean Treacy, the death of Terence
MacSwiney, and the capture and execution of teenager Kevin Barry.
As in the authors' previous works the pulsating tension, elation,
fear, desperation, hunger, the mercy and the enmity leap from the
pages. The harrowing circumstances suffered by those whose
sacrifices laid the bedrock for modern Ireland, and whose own words
form the book's primary sources, are recounted in unflinching
detail.
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