A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR'A superb book' Simon Sebag
Montefiore'An empowering story of human ingenuity' Economist'Full
of curious facts' The TimesCauses of death have changed irrevocably
across time. In the course of a few centuries we have gone from a
world where disease or violence were likely to strike anyone at any
age, and where famine could be just one bad harvest away, to one
where in many countries excess food is more of a problem than a
lack of it. Why have the reasons we die changed so much? How is it
that a century ago people died mainly from infectious disease,
while today the leading causes of death in industrialised nations
are heart disease and stroke? And what do changing causes of death
reveal about how previous generations have lived? University of
Manchester Professor Andrew Doig provides an eye-opening portrait
of death throughout history, looking at particular causes - from
infectious disease to genetic disease, violence to diet - who they
affected, and the people who made it possible to overcome
them.Along the way we hear about the long and torturous story of
the discovery of vitamin C and its role in preventing scurvy, the
Irish immigrant who opened the first washhouse for the poor of
Liverpool, and in so doing educated the public on the importance of
cleanliness in combating disease, and the Church of England curate
who, finding his new church equipped with a telephone, started the
Samaritans to assist those in emotional distress. This Mortal Coil
is a thrilling story of growing medical knowledge and social
organisation, of achievement and, looking to the future, of
promise.
V januári 1965 Gabriel García Márquez cestoval s rodinou na
dovolenku do Acapulca, keď odrazu dostal nápad. Začul vravu
mestečka Macondo. Už vedel, ako napíše svoj nový román. Vrátil sa
domov, zatvoril sa do pracovne, a keď z nej po osemnástich
mesiacoch vyšiel, v ruke držal 1 300 strán rukopisu a bol šťastný.
Román Sto rokov samoty prvý raz vyšiel v roku 1967, Márquez mal
vtedy 39 rokov a svet si navždy zapamätal jeho meno. Dnes je román
považovaný za jedno z najvýznamnejších diel latinskoamerickej a
svetovej literatúry. Je komponovaný z množstva reálnych aj
fantazijných epizód a rozpráva o pôvabných i krutých príhodách
šiestich generácií rodiny Buendíovcov z fiktívneho mestečka
Macondo.
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