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Letters from the Land of Fear: Intimacy, Beauty, and Death in Central Asia
Letters from the Land of Fear: Intimacy, Beauty, and Death in Central Asia
Letters from the Land of Fear: Intimacy, Beauty, and Death in Central Asia
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For 11 months Calvin White worked for Doctors Without Borders as a mental health specialist in the off-the-radar region of Karakalpakstan in western Uzbekistan. Unlike the higher profile emergency situations which draw that international humanitarian organization's attention, the milieu for White's mission was the quiet, slow death in an epidemic of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. White takes the reader inside the daily heartbeat of humans we've never heard of but come to see as sharing the same pulse. It is a remarkable journey of intimacy and hope, one that reconfigures our understanding of sadness and, ultimately, reaffirms the common spirit of humanity.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherGuernica
Release dateMay 15, 2015
ISBN9781771830126
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