Hazel Grace Lancaster is sixteen and lives with thyroid cancer that has spread to her lungs, so she carries an oxygen tank everywhere. Pushed by her mother to attend a support group, she meets Augustus Waters, a former basketball player who lost a leg to bone cancer. They bond over Hazel's favorite novel, An Imperial Affliction, whose author Peter Van Houten lives in Amsterdam, and Gus arranges a trip so Hazel can ask him how the book ends.
Teens and adults who want a love story with dark humor and no sugar-coating will find it here. It shows how two people can face illness with irony and still treat the time they have as large.
Inward-looking and contemplative; an easy read.
Best for readers like The Empathetic Explorer. Which reader are you?
- ISBN
- 9789737077431
- Language
- RO
