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Published by Libros del Asteroide · Biography and literary studies · ISBN 9788417007713

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An autobiographical book in which Maggie O'Farrell gathers seventeen moments of her life, at different times and in different countries, when she came close to dying: a childbirth that goes wrong, a childhood illness that kept her in bed for over a year, an attack by a stranger when she was a teenager. Each episode leads her to think about how fragile existence is and what really matters.

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Who it's for
For readers of memoirs and of O'Farrell herself, and for anyone looking for a book about death that, according to reviewers, leaves more appetite for life than sadness. It is organised in seventeen pieces.
Why people still read it
It was warmly received by critics in Spain and in the English-speaking world: writers such as Ann Patchett and Tracy Chevalier praised it, and Claire Kilroy wrote in The Irish Times that it made her cry.

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