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Finding Chika de Mitch Albom

Finding Chika

Autor Mitch Albom
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 aug 2020

Structura volumului Finding Chika este construită pe o metodologie narativă duală: o cronică riguroasă a evenimentelor petrecute din momentul sosirii micuței Chika în Detroit și un dialog imaginar, dar profund revelator, între Mitch Albom și fetița care i-a devenit fiică. Considerăm că această abordare transformă relatarea dintr-o simplă biografie medicală într-o meditație asupra paternității asumate la maturitate. Autorul nu se ferește să expună propria vulnerabilitate, recunoscând că prioritizarea carierei l-a ținut departe de experiența de părinte până la întâlnirea cu orfana haitiană care a supraviețuit cutremurului din 2010.

Descoperim aici un ritm alert, dictat de urgența medicală și de călătoriile internaționale în căutarea unui tratament, însă tonul rămâne unul de o onestitate tăioasă. Cartea acoperă aceeași arie tematică a adopției internaționale și a fragilității vieții în Haiti ca și Love in the Driest Season de Neely Tucker, dar cu o abordare mult mai intimă, concentrată pe micro-universul familiei Albom și pe dialogul interior. Dacă în The Five People You Meet In Heaven sau The Stranger in the Lifeboat, Mitch Albom folosea ficțiunea și alegoria pentru a explora sensul existenței, în Finding Chika el ancorează aceleași întrebări metafizice în realitatea brutală a pierderii și a iubirii necondiționate. Este o lucrare ce marchează tranziția autorului de la observator al condiției umane la participant activ într-o poveste de sacrificiu personal, oferind o perspectivă rară asupra asistenței sociale și a plasamentului prin lentila experienței directe.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780063040960
ISBN-10: 0063040964
Pagini: 243
Dimensiuni: 112 x 167 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.13 kg
Editura: Harper Collins Publ. USA
Colecția Harper

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricui dorește să înțeleagă complexitatea adopției și a legăturilor umane care transcend biologia. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă onestă despre responsabilitate și altruism, într-o relatare care demonstrează că familia se construiește prin prezență și devotament. Este o lectură esențială pentru cei interesați de asistență socială și de impactul profund pe care un copil îl poate avea asupra vieții unui adult.

Despre autor

Mitch Albom este un autor de succes internațional, jurnalist și filantrop, cunoscut pentru volume care au dominat clasamentele New York Times. Dincolo de cariera sa literară, Albom este profund implicat în acțiuni caritabile, fondând opt organizații în Detroit și operând orfelinatul 'Have Faith Haiti' în Port-au-Prince. Această implicare directă în viața copiilor vulnerabili din Haiti constituie fundamentul pentru Finding Chika, lucrarea sa cea mai personală, care reflectă experiența sa de tutore și părinte adoptiv.

Descriere scurtă

"Mitch Albom has done it again with this moving memoir of love and loss. You can’t help but fall for Chika. A page-turner that will no doubt become a classic.” --Mary Karr, author of The Liars’ Club and The Art of Memoir
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tuesdays With Morrie comes Mitch Albom’s most personal story to date: an intimate and heartwarming memoir about what it means to be a family and the young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change his heart. 
Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. She spent her infancy in a landscape of extreme poverty, and when her mother died giving birth to a baby brother, Chika was brought to The Have Faith Haiti Orphanage that Albom operates in Port Au Prince.

With no children of their own, the forty-plus children who live, play, and go to school at the orphanage have become family to Mitch and his wife, Janine. Chika’s arrival makes a quick impression. Brave and self-assured, even as a three-year-old, she delights the other kids and teachers. But at age five, Chika is suddenly diagnosed with something a doctor there says, “No one in Haiti can help you with.”

Mitch and Janine bring Chika to Detroit, hopeful that American medical care can soon return her to her homeland. Instead, Chika becomes a permanent part of their household, and their lives, as they embark on a two-year, around-the-world journey to find a cure. As Chika’s boundless optimism and humor teach Mitch the joys of caring for a child, he learns that a relationship built on love, no matter what blows it takes, can never be lost.

Told in hindsight, and through illuminating conversations with Chika herself, this is Albom at his most poignant and vulnerable. Finding Chika is a celebration of a girl, her adoptive guardians, and the incredible bond they formed—a devastatingly beautiful portrait of what it means to be a family, regardless of how it is made.

Recenzii

Albom conveys the heartbreak of watching her suffer (Chika endured surgeries, and lost teeth and hair), while capturing Chika’s sweet spirit and youthful resilience. He speaks candidly about being too career-focused and putting off having kids until it was too late, and shares how Chika allowed him and his wife to experience the glory of parenthood decades into their marriage. Albom addresses Chika directly: “You never have to worry about us forgetting you... we’d lose every memory we ever had before we would let go of yours.” Both painfully sad and beautiful, this is an absolute tearjerker. — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
The takeaway from this simple, moving memoir is that love has no boundaries and should not be hindered by ethnicity, religion, education, or money.A highly expressive, tender story about how “families are like pieces of art, they can be made from many materials. — Kirkus Reviews
“This is a story of such heart-wrenching beauty that you think it would take a Mitch Albom to compose it. But Albom is more than the author, for it was his own heart that was broken open by the surprising arrival and excruciating departure of a dazzling little Haitian girl named Chika—who became, in every way that matters, his and his wife’s precious daughter — and it is his own life he seeks to patch back together in the telling.” — Melissa Fay Greene, two-time Nation a l Book Award finalist and author of There Is No Me Without You
“Mitch Albom has done it again with this moving memoir of love and loss. You can’t help but fall for Chika. A page-turner that will no doubt become a classic.” — Mary Karr, author of The Liars’ Club and The Art of Memoir
Albom’s memoir is a lens into his grief but also a celebration of Chika’s spirit and lessons gleaned from their time together as a family. The heartbreaking but uplifting story is a testament to the bravery and resilience of children and the power of love. — Library Journal

Notă biografică

Mitch Albom is the author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction, which have collectively sold more than forty million copies in forty-seven languages worldwide. He has written seven number-one New York Times bestsellers ? including Tuesdays with Morrie, the bestselling memoir of all time, which topped the list for four straight years ? award-winning TV films, stage plays, screenplays, a nationally syndicated newspaper column, and a musical. Through his work at the Detroit Free Press, he was inducted into both the National Sports Media Association and Michigan Sports halls of fame and is the recipient of the 2010 Red Smith Award for lifetime achievement. After bestselling memoir Finding Chika and ?Human Touch,? the weekly serial written and published online in real-time to raise funds for pandemic relief, his latest work is a return to fiction with The Stranger in the Lifeboat (Harper, November 2021). He founded and oversees SAY Detroit, a consortium of nine different charitable operations in his hometown, including a nonprofit dessert shop and food product line to fund programs for Detroit's most underserved citizens. He also operates an orphanage in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, which he visits monthly. He lives with his wife, Janine, in Michigan. Learn more at www.mitchalbom.com, www.saydetroit.org, and www.havefaithaiti.org.

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FROM THE MASTER STORYTELLER WHOSE BOOKS HAVE TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF OVER 40 MILLION READERS

'Mitch Albom sees the magical in the ordinary' Cecilia Ahern

Don't miss Mitch Albom's new novel, Twice, a beautiful and heartbreaking story about lost loves and second chances
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Chika Jeune came into Mitch Albom's life by chance. Growing up in the aftermath of the devastating 2010 Haiti Earthquake, at three years old she tragically lost her mother and was brought to the orphanage run by Mitch and his wife, Janine.

Chika made a quick impression. Brave and self-assured, she delighted those around her. But everything changed when Chika was diagnosed with a terminal disease that no doctor in Haiti could treat.

This discovery sparked a two-year, around-the-world journey in search of a cure. As Chika's boundless optimism and humour taught Mitch the joys of caring for a child, he learned that a relationship built on love can never be lost.
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WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT FINDING CHIKA

'A powerful, emotional story'

'If you read one book this year, make it this one!'

'A beautifully written book, heart-breaking and uplifting in equal measure'

'An amazing journey of determination and love'

'I laughed, I cried, and just couldn't put it down'