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A Nurse Sleeps At The Bedside Of His Dying Patients; A Wife Deceives Her Husband By Never Telling Him He Has Cancer; A Bedridden Man Has To Be Hidden From His Demented And Amorous Eighty-year-old Wife. In Her Poignant And Genre-busting Debut, Susana Moreira Marques Confronts Us With Our Own Mortality And Inspires Us To Think About What Is Important. Accompanying A Palliative Care Team, Moreira Marques Travelled To Trás-os-montes, A Forgotten Corner Of Northern Portugal, A Rural Area Abandoned By The Young. Crossing Great Distances Where Eagles Circle Over The Roads, She Visits Villages Where Rural Ways Of Life Are Disappearing. She Listens To Families Facing Death And Gives Us Their Stories In Their Words As Well As Through Her Own Meditations. Brilliantly Blending The Immediacy Of Oral History With The Sensibility Of Philosophical Reportage, Moreira Marques' Book Speaks About Death In A Fresh Way. Travel Notes About Death -- Portraits: Paula, Joao And Maria, Elisa And Sara -- When You Come Back From The Journey No -- Healthy Person Wants To Take, You Will... Susana Moreira Marques ; Translated By Julia Sanches. A nurse sleeps at the bedside of his dying patients; a wife deceives her husband by never telling him he has cancer; a bedridden man has to be hidden from his demented and amorous eighty-year-old wife. In her poignant and genre-busting debut, Susana Moreira Marques confronts us with our own mortality and inspires us to think about what is important.Accompanying a palliative care team, Moreira Marques travels to Trás-os-Montes, a forgotten corner of northern Portugal, a rural area abandoned by the young. Crossing great distances where eagles circle over the roads, she visits villages where rural ways of life are disappearing. She listens to families facing death and gives us their stories in their words as well as through her own meditations.Brilliantly blending the immediacy of oral history with the sensibility of philosophical reportage, Moreira Marques's book speaks about death in a fresh way. "With her new book, Now and at the Hour of Our Death, Susana Moreira Marques blends poetry and journalism to create a work of reportage like no other. The region of Tras-os-Montes in Portugal is dying. The villages empty as young people go off to look for work, leaving the elderly behind. Part oral history, part philosophical entreaty, part essay, Marques' hybrid book chronicles a way of life in its final days."--Publisher's website