Mother Teresa
beyond the image
by Anne Sebba
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Mother Teresa of Calcutta - few figures in the twentieth century have received such adulation. This diminutive nun of Albanian descent was frequently cited as the living embodiment of Christian kindness. Recipient of numerous humanitarian awards, including the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize, she was hailed as a living saint and commanded unrivaled international attention.
Yet the respect she received was not unanimous, and since 1990, serious, measured criticisms have been directed at this modern icon, who seemed beyond reproach. In this riveting book, Anne Sebba gives us the first unbiased and balanced account of Mother Teresa's life and work. It is the first to put her in a social, historical, and geographic context, and the first to assess the future for the four thousand nuns in her worldwide Order.
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Nobel Prizes, Nuns, Missionaries of Charity, Juvenile literature, Biography, Women, Nobel Prize winners, Teresa, mother, 1910-1997, Teresa, mother, 1910-1997, juvenile literature, Missionaries, Missionaries, juvenile literature, Nuns, juvenile literature, India, biography, Women, biography, Women, biography, juvenile literaturePeople
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Mother Teresa
December 1, 1997, Orion mass market paperback, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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A brief biography of the nun who founded the order known as "The Congregation of the Missionaries of Charity" to work with the sick and destitute in Calcutta and other places and who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
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