PRINCIPAL TRANSLATIONS
The extraordinary life of one of the most intriguing figures of the 20th century. Born into a peasant family in a remote French village, confined to bed with paralysis by the age of eighteen, blind by the age of thirty-eight, Marthe Robin nonetheless founded the Foyers of Charity and gave counsel and prayerful support to over 100,000 visitors. The postulator for her cause, traces the spiritual journey of one whose identification with Jesus was so intense that she suffered the stigmata and every Friday for years experienced the Passion of Christ. Buy
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The powerful historical drama of the bringing to life of the country now known as the Rainbow Nation, beginning with the Dutch settlement in the Cape, in 1652, and ending with Nelson Mandela’s 1994 presidential inauguration in Pretoria. This epic account is punctuated with the human stories of heroic men and women - famous and obscure, white and black, European and African - caught up in the cruelly oppressive regime that ended with the liberation from prison of one of the moral giants of our time. Buy
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Beyond Love
by Dominique Lapierre
(Random Century 1991)
The epic story of those who fought to save humanity from AIDS, the greatest
plague of our time, and the race to develop an effective medicine.
A Thousand
Suns
by Dominique Lapierre
(Simon & Schuster UK Ltd 1999)
In which Lapierre traces his personal growth from detached journalist
to
concerned participant in some of the great human dramas about which he
has written.
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Five Past
Midnight in Bhopal
by Dominique Lapierre & Javier Moro
(Simon & Schuster UK Ltd 2002)
| Dominique Lapierre and his co-author Javier Moro (in a fluent translation by Kathryn Spink) write without hyperbole but with a compassion which is all the stronger for being understated |
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At five past midnight on 3rd December 1984 a cloud of toxic gas escaped from an American pesticide plant in the heart of the Indian city of Bhopal, killing between sixteen and thirty thousand people and injuring five hundred thousand more. This book puts faces to the masses that were affected by a disaster, the survivors of which are still suffering chronically and without proper compensation. It records a real tragedy of crucial relevance to our times and is a warning to all those sorcerer's apprentices who threaten the future of our planet.
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Yougga finds
Mother Teresa
by Kirsten Bang
(Element Books Ltd 1983)
Yougga, the crippled son of a poor tanner in a North Indian village, has
few
prospects - until his neighbour takes him on a pilgrimage to the sacred
city of Varanasi (formerly Benares). Their long journey brings a series
of adventures and an encounter with Mother Teresa, which proves to be
decisive. A story for children with drawings in the Indian style by Kamma
Svenson.
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