Mountains Beyond Mountains (Adapted for Young People): The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World Audiobook

Quotes

• “A tale that inspires, discomforts and provokes.”

  — New York Times

• “If I ever go on a retreat again, this is the kind of book I’d like to take for spiritual reading…[Kidder] knows it is impossible to live like Farmer, but the impossibility is the very thing that can somehow give us life.”

  — Washington Post Book World

• “This sensitive, compelling portrait just might, beyond its educational value and absorbing reading, spur at least some readers to help with the kind of action Farmer has dedicated his life to.

  — San Francisco Chronicle

• “Remind[s] us that we’re implicated in all the problems Farmer’s working to solve…His complicated humanity only makes him more like the rest of us in our shortcomings—and leaves us asking why we all aren't a little more like him in our virtues.”

  — Newsday

• “A true-to-life fairy tale, one that inspires you to believe in happy endings. It is one of those books you’ll buy for your family and friends.”

  — Boston Globe

• “Extraordinary profile…It’ll fill you equally with wonder and hope.”

  — People Magazine

• “Mountains Beyond Mountains will move you, restore your faith in the ability of one person to make a difference in these increasingly maddening, dispiriting times. [Kidder has] held his writer’s mirror up to an astonishing comet of a man whose reflection flatters us all for what it says about our capacity for mercy and healing.”

  — San Diego Union-Tribune

• “[A] skilled and graceful exploration of the soul of an astonishing human being.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

• “[Kidder] turns the small details of daily life into a sort of grand, universal poetry.”

  — Entertainment Weekly

• “Recounts [Farmer’s] quest with grace and passion…both inspiring and guilt-provoking…the reader’s conscience will likely feel a deserved jab.” 

  — Boston Magazine

• “One of our finest writers of literary nonfiction brings his brilliant attentiveness to a Harvard-trained infectious-disease specialist, a real-life hero whose determination to improve health care in Haiti and elsewhere borders on the messianic.”

  — Philadelphia Inquirer

• “Kidder’s words reveal Farmer with such startling clarity that sometimes you are not aware you are reading. Instead, you are scrambling up a Haitian hill alongside a genius. And you can’t wait to hear what he says next.”

  — Cleveland Plain Dealer

• “[This book] gives us just the shot in the arm we all need…Kidder does a remarkable job bringing Farmer to life. As much a poet as a journalist, the author creates a three-dimensional hologram of the doctor… Farmer is remarkable, and Kidder has done his usual wonderful job. This is a book everyone should rush to read.”

  — Minneapolis Star Tribune

• “A treatise on goodness…Kidder, one of the best nonfiction writers living today, is a methodical researcher and a penetrating interviewer. Those qualities serve his readers well here…vivid and heartrending.”

  — St. Louis Post-Dispatch

• “Easily the most fascinating, most entertaining and, yes, most inspiring work of non-fiction I’ve read this year.”

  — Mercury News

• “In this excellent work, Pulitzer Prize–winner Kidder immerses himself in and beautifully explores the rich drama that exists in the life of Dr. Paul Farmer…Throughout, Kidder captures the almost saintly effect Farmer has on those whom he treats.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “Kidder’s wonderful book is an antidote for cynics.”

  — BookPage

• “Mountains Beyond Mountains is the only book I’ve read in years that made me feel like cheering. It left me uncomfortable, guilty, and exhausted—but it also inspired me, kept me up all night, and moved me to tears…Tracy Kidder has given us not only an unforgettable book but an unignorable life lesson. Hurrah!”

  — Anne Fadiman, author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

• “A profoundly inspiring and important book about one of the truly great men of our time.”

  — Ethan Canin, author of Carry Me Across the Water

• “A fine writer and his extraordinary subject: Tracy Kidder, in giving us Paul Farmer, lifts up an image of hope—and challenge—that the world urgently needs. Simply put, this is an important book.”

  — James Carroll, author of Constantine’s Sword

• The central character of this marvelous book is one of the most provocative, brilliant, funny, unsettling, endlessly energetic, irksome and charming characters ever to spring to life on the page…He wants to change the world. Certainly this luminous and powerful book will change the way you will see it.”

  — Jonathan Harr, author of A Civil Action

• “Here is a genuine hero alive in our times. Mountains Beyond Mountains unfolds with the force of gathering revelation. Like all of Tracy Kidder’s books, it is as hard to put down as any good and true story.”

  — Annie Dillard, author of The Writing Life