Name: La Ciudad de la Alegría (in Spanish)
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Author: Dominique Lapierre
ISBN: 9788432240300

portada La Ciudad de la Alegría (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Dominique Lapierre

Publisher

Seix Barral

Language

Spanish

Pages

384

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23 x 15 cm

ISBN

9788432240300

ISBN13

9788432240300

Edited in

España

Synopsis "La Ciudad de la Alegría (in Spanish)"

Un sacerdote francés, un joven médico norteamericano, una enfermera de Assam y un campesino indio que se gana la vida tirando de un rickshaw se encuentran un día bajo las cataratas del monzón y se instalan en el alucinante decorado de un barrio de Calcuta para cuidar, ayudar, salvar.

Condenados a ser héroes, pelearán, lucharán y vencerán en medio de las inundaciones, las ratas, los escorpiones, los eunucos, los dioses, las fiestas y las setenta mil "luces del mundo" que pueblan La ciudad de la Alegría. Su epopeya es un canto de amor, un himno a la vida, una lección de ternura y de esperanza para todas las personas de nuestro tiempo.

Dominique Lapierre

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Since he fell in love with India while writing his bestsellers, he allocates half of his royalties and donations from his readers to humanitarian efforts in the slums of Kolkata, in the poorest rural areas of Bengal, and also in Africa and South America. Since 1982, the writer and his wife have helped save thousands of children sick with leprosy or suffering from other physical and mental issues, and have cured a million people with tuberculosis. The organization they founded, Action pour les Enfants des Lépreux de Calcutta (www.cityofjoyaid.org, www.citedelajoie.com), funds numerous programs year after year. For this humanitarian work and his books about the history of the Indian subcontinent, Dominique Lapierre received on May 5, 2008, from the hands of the President of India, the highest civilian award, the Padma Bhushan. This official recognition had been especially requested by seventy-five thousand patients who had been healed thanks to Dominique Lapierre.

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