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Idioma: inglés
Editorial: Knopf Publishing Group, 2014
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In 1997 Wayne Dale Matthysse, a former Marine Corps medic who served in Vietnam, returned to South East Asia offer his service . With Vandin San, a brilliant young Cambodian aid worker, he transformed Wat Opot, a haunted scrubland behind a ruined temple, into a place of healing and respite. Here children with or orphaned by HIV/AIDS--the first generation of children to grow up with AIDS--could find a new family, and live outside of fear or judgment. Disarming, funny, deeply moving, In a Rocket Made of Ice gathers the hopeful stories of children saved and changed by this very special place; the story of a war veteran's redemption; and the story of the author's transformation in her contact with the powerful life force of Wat Opot.
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- Título
- In a Rocket Made of Ice: Among the Children of Wat Opot
- Autor
- Gail Gutradt
- Editorial
- Knopf Publishing Group
- Año de publicación
- 2014
- Estado
- Good
- Encuadernación
- Hardback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 10
- 0385353472
- ISBN 13
- 9780385353472
Gail Gutradt was at a crossroads in her life when she learned of the Wat Opot Childrens Community. Begun with just fifty dollars in the pocket of Wayne Dale Matthysse, a former Marine Corps medic in Vietnam, Wat Opot, a temple complex nestled among Cambodias verdant rice paddies, was once a haunted scrubland that became a place of healing and respite where children with or orphaned by HIV/AIDS could live outside of fear or judgment, and find a new familya place that Gutradt calls a workshop for souls.
Disarming, funny, deeply moving, In a Rocket Made of Ice gathers the stories of children saved and changed by this very special place, and of one womans transformation in trying to help them. With wry perceptiveness and stunning humanity and humor, this courageous, surprising, and evocative memoir etches the people of Wat Opot forever on your heart.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.
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Gail Gutradt has volunteered at the Wat Opot Childrens Community in Cambodia since 2005. Her stories, articles, and poems have appeared in the Japan-basedKyoto Journal, as well as in the Utne Reader and Ashé Journal. Her firstKyoto Journal article, The Things Weve Gone Through Together, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives in Bar Harbor, Maine.
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