Ghost Stories
Siri Hustvedt, the widow of writer Paul Auster, experiences her mourning by remembering her life with the writer. She recounts his illness and includes biographical and autobiographical details, without...
Death
Departure(s)
Julian Barnes stops writing; he has turned eighty and has decided it is time to say goodbye. In this farewell book, he offers reflections that resemble involuntary autobiographical memories, akin to Proust’...
On Death and Dying
It is a pioneering work that is being republished after decades. It deeply addresses how people face the process of dying, both the patients themselves and those around them: family members, medical staff,...
Death and the Gardener
The Bulgarian writer relives the death of his father, a retiree devoted to horticulture; he reflects on the new situation, the unknown, and their reaction when the doctor announces the seriousness of the...
Alone
Mei, a forty-two-year-old woman immersed in an apathetic marriage and recently fired from her job, decides to seek refuge in the house where she grew up, a small farmhouse in the middle of the forest. There...
A grief observed
In 1952, the American poet Helen Joy Davidson Gresham, a Catholic, divorced and communist, appeared in the life of the fifty-year-old Clive Staples Lewis, an Anglican, unmarried and eminent British man of...
Who if I Cry Out
Novel in which the main character writes a brief diary before he dies. His doctor tells him that he has a fatal disease and has 3 months to live. As life left him alone, he decided to lock himself at home,...
With the End in Mind
The subtitle is indicative of the content of the book: How to face death with wisdom. It presents 30 real cases taken from the clinical experience of the author, who is a physician, pioneer and specialist...
Listen, how to find the words for tender conversation
Dr. Kathryn Mannix presents a new book, the fruit of her medical experience. She shares ideas, thoughts and actions that come from the Christian way of thinking. This book is a manual to learn how to...