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Title: BELOVED SON
BORN WITH HIV
By: Therese Muamini, Nadine Bitner, Barbara Bray (Trans)
Format: Hardback

List price: £12.99


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ISBN 10: 1853752053
ISBN 13: 9781853752056
Publisher: PRION BOOKS LTD
Pub. date: 9 October, 1995
Pages: 192
Language: English & French
Translated from: French
Description: In 1983, a visit from a friend and her baby Tshakau, from their home in Rwanda changes Therese Muanini's life in Paris irrevocably. Her friend dies suddenly from AIDS, and the boy Therese adopts as her own is diagnosed as HIV positive. This book recounts Therese's story.
Synopsis: In 1983 a visit from a friend and her baby Tshakua, from their home in Rwanda, changes Therese Muanini's life in Paris irrevocably. Her friend dies suddenly from AIDS, and the boy Therese adopts as her own is diagnosed as HIV positive. Therese has to look after the boy and try to keep her job. Forced to leave her apartment, she finds herself alone and destitute, with nowhere to live, no money and a child whose condition fills some people with fear. This book is the story of how Therese has forged a life for herself and Tshakua.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Prion Books Ltd
Returns: Returnable
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