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L'imprevedibile viaggio di Harold Fry

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È un normalissimo mattino di metà aprile, quando il neo-pensionato Harold Fry riceve la lettera che sta per sconvolgere la sua vita. Queenie Hennessy, una ex collega e amica, gli ha scritto per dirgli addio: si trova, infatti, in una casa di cura nel Nord dell’Inghilterra e sta per morire di cancro. Sopraffatto dai ricordi e dalle emozioni, Harold riesce a fatica a buttare giù qualche parola per rispondere a un tale messaggio, ma una volta arrivato alla cassetta della posta qualcosa lo blocca. Sono passati vent’anni dall’ultima volta che ha visto Queenie e non ha mai potuto ringraziarla per quello che ha fatto per lui, così, spinto da un impulso improvviso e del tutto irrazionale, decide di andarla a trovare e semplicemente… comincia a camminare. Si convince che finché lui camminerà, lei continuerà a vivere. Inizia così un lungo viaggio a piedi, mille chilometri che lo porteranno da Kingsbridge a Berwick-upon-Tweed, senza scarpe da trekking né bussola, per non parlare di una cartina o di un cambio di abiti. Ma nonostante le vesciche ai piedi e i dolori alla schiena, ogni passo è un’occasione per rivivere il suo passato e sbloccare i tragici ricordi che lo hanno sempre più allontanato da sua moglie Maureen; ogni incontro una speranza di rinnovamento. La sensazione di libertà che gli provoca questa avventura nell’ignoto è inebriante, perché finalmente la sua vita ha uno scopo e lui non può fallire. Impossibile non farsi trascinare dall’ottimismo di Harold Fry, l’anziano impacciato e gentile, la cui eccezionale storia ci ricorda che tutto è possibile e che senza amore non si può fare niente che abbia davvero importanza. (Dal sito dell'editore)

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Giunti
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320

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Brossura con bandelle
Number of pages
320
Dimensions
21.5 x 14 x centimeters

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OL49367554M
ISBN 13
9788809977754

Work Description

Harold Fry has recently retired and now, he doesn't do very much. Even mowing the lawn, like his wife Maureen tells him to do, seems too much work for him. When, one day, he recieves a lettre in a pink envelope, this lazyness changes. In it, his collegue from long time ago, Queenie Hennessy, tells him she is going to die soon from a cancer in a hospice at the other end of England. Harold, at first helpless, decides not only to write her back, but to walk the whole way from Kingsbridge to Berwick-upon-Tweed.

During his walk, he will not only meet a lot of people, listen to their story, but also make a journey into his own past, his relation to both Maureen and Quennie and his son David. He is walking to save Queenie, but is he also saving himself?

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The letter that would change everything arrived on a Tuesday.
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