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No one can stop the rain : a chronicle of two foreign aid workers during the Angolan Civil War /

Set in central Angola during the final stages of the country's thirty-year civil war, No One Can Stop the Rain is the true story of two ordinary M©♭decins Sans Fronti©·res volunteers - a surgeon and his wife, leaving behind their comfortable lives in mid-career. In doing so they are confronted...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Moorhouse, Karin, 1961- (Autor), Cheng, Wei, 1958- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : Insomniac Press, ©2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Busyness Trap; Chapter 2: Resolution; Chapter 3: Into the Unknown; Chapter 4: Casa Quatro; Chapter 5: Oil or Diamonds?; Chapter 6: Daily Life; Chapter 7: Patient Patients; Chapter 8: Death's Precipice; Chapter 9: Flattery for Inanities; Chapter 10: Music and Dark Thoughts; Chapter 11:170,000 Needles; Chapter 12: Nourishing News; Chapter 13: First Breath, Last Gasp; Chapter 14: Domestic Dynamics; Chapter 15: A Growing Aversion; Chapter 16: Egg and Tomato Sandwiches; Chapter 17: Absurdity; Chapter 18: Atlantic Romance; Chapter 19: Kuito Calm. 
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