Diary of a vampire in pyjamas
Malzieu, Mathias2017
Book
In November 2013 author and musician Mathias Malzieu is diagnosed with a rare and life-threatening blood disease: his bone marrow does not produce enough blood cells, and those that survive are being attacked by the body's natural antibodies as if they were viruses. Highly anaemic and at risk of a cardiac attack or fatal haemorrhaging, Malzieu is whisked into hospital, and spends months in a sterile isolation room. He is kept alive by blood transfusions, while waiting for a bone marrow transplant. When he has the energy for it, he writes in his diary and strums his ukelele. To read this book is to be in awe of the triumph of the human spirit. As a reader you find yourself marvelling at how we find the mechanisms to cope with tragedy and uncertainty when faced with the reality that we may die.
Main title:
Diary of a vampire in pyjamas / Mathias Malzieu ; translated from the French by Sam Alexander.
Author:
Malzieu, Mathias, authorAlexander, Sam, translator
Imprint:
London : Quercus, [2017]©2016
Collation:
181 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781786480347 (hbk)
Dewey class:
362.1961520092362.196152 MAL
Language:
EnglishFrench
Subject:
BRN:
2451734