Lisa Genova

Bella y estremecedora, esta novela es un retrato vívido y conmovedor de la irrupción precoz del Alzheimer. Alice Howland está orgullosa de la vida que tanto esfuerzo le ha costado construir. A los cincuenta, es profesora de psicologia en Harvard y una linguista de fama mundial. Tiene un marido al que ama y tres hijos adultos. Cuando empieza a sentirse desorientada y olvidadiza, un tragico diagnostico cambia su vida para siempre.Bella y estremecedora, esta novela es un retrato vivido y conmovedor de la irrupcion precoz del Alzheimer. Al adentrarnos en la historia, nos enteramos de lo que Alice piensa y siente a medida que avanza la enfermedad, haciendola dejar de ser la persona que era y modificando su relacion con su familia y con el mundo. Un libro escrito con realismo y al mismo tiempo con ternura.Reseña:"Genova nos prueba que aunque perdamos la mente, conservaremos el corazon."Globe and Mail

A virtuoso performance by the bestselling author of Still Alice, Lisa Genova delivers a stunning novel of finding harmony amidst the most tragic of situations.An accomplished concert pianist, Richard has already suffered many losses in his life: the acrimonious divorce from his ex-wife, Karina; the estrangement of his daughter, Grace; and now, a devastating diagnosis. ALS. The relentlessly progressive paralysis of ALS begins in the cruellest way possible - in his hands. As Richard becomes more and more locked inside his body and can no longer play piano or live on his own, Karina steps in as his reluctant caregiver. Paralysed in a different way, Karina is trapped within a prison of excuses and blame, stuck in an unfulfilling life as an after-school piano teacher, afraid to pursue the path she abandoned as a young woman. As Richards muscles, voice and breath fade, the two struggle to reconcile their past before its too late. With a strong musical sensibility and the staggering insight of Jojo MoyesMe Before You, Lisa Genova has delivered a masterful exploration of what it means to find yourself within the most shattering of circumstances.

Lisa GenovaAlice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. A Harvard professor, she has a successful husband and three grown children. When she begins to grow forgetful, she dismisses it for as long as she can, but when she gets lost in her own neighbourhood she knows that something has gone terribly wrong. She finds herself in the rapidly downward spiral of Alzheimer's Disease. She is fifty years old. Suddenly she has no classes to teach, no new research to conduct, no invited lectures to give. Ever again. Unable to work, read and, increasingly, take care of herself, Alice struggles to find meaning and purpose in her everyday life as her concept of self gradually slips away. But Alice is a remarkable woman, and her family, yoked by history and DNA and love, discover more about her and about each other, in their quest to keep the Alice they know for as long as possible. Losing her yesterdays, her short-term memory hanging on by a couple of frayed threads, she is living in the moment, living for each day. But she is still Alice.

From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Lisa Genova comes a heartbreakingvery human novel (Matthew Thomas, author of We Are Not Ourselves) that does for Huntingtons disease what her debut novel Still Alice did for Alzheimers.Joe OBrien is a forty-three-year-old police officer from the Irish Catholic neighborhood of Charlestown, Massachusetts. A devoted husband, proud father of four children in their twenties, and respected officer, Joe begins experiencing bouts of disorganized thinking, uncharacteristic temper outbursts, and strange, involuntary movements. He initially attributes these episodes to the stress of his job, but as these symptoms worsen, he agrees to see a neurologist and is handed a diagnosis that will change his and his familys lives forever: Huntingtons disease.Huntingtons is a lethal neurodegenerative disease with no treatment and no cure, and each of Joes four children has a 50 percent chance of inheriting their fathers disease. While watching her potential future in her fathers escalating symptoms, twenty-one-year-old daughter Katie struggles with the questions this test imposes on her young adult life. As Joes symptoms worsen and hes eventually stripped of his badge and more, Joe struggles to maintain hope and a sense of purpose, while Katie and her siblings must find the courage to either live a life at risk or learn their fate.

One typical morning, Sarah Nickerson, a woman in her mid-thirties, is late for work, racing in her car after dropping her kids off at school and daycare. She tries to phone in to a meeting she should already be at when she takes her eye off the road for a second too long. In that blink of an eye, all the rapidly moving parts of her over-scheduled life come to a screeching halt. Sarah suffers a traumatic head injury. Her memory and intellect are intact, but she has lost all interest in, and the ability to perceive, information coming from the left side of space. The left side of her world has gone. Sarah only eats the food from the right side of her plate. She can't see her watch, or her engagement diamond or her wedding ring. She tries to use a wheel chair but can only spin in circles as her left arm dangles by her side.

Bella y estremecedora, esta novela es un retrato vívido y conmovedor de la irrupción precoz del Alzheimer.Alice Howland está orgullosa de la vida que tanto esfuerzo le ha costado construir. A los cincuenta, es profesora de psicologia en Harvard y una linguista de fama mundial. Tiene un marido al que ama y tres hijos adultos. Cuando empieza a sentirse desorientada y olvidadiza, un tragico diagnostico cambia su vida para siempre.Bella y estremecedora, esta novela es un retrato vivido y conmovedor de la irrupcion precoz del Alzheimer. Al adentrarnos en la historia, nos enteramos de lo que Alice piensa y siente a medida que avanza la enfermedad, haciendola dejar de ser la persona que era y modificando su relacion con su familia y con el mundo.Un libro escrito con realismo y al mismo tiempo con ternura.Reseña: Genova nos prueba que aunque perdamos la mente, conservaremos el corazon.Globe and Mail

Bella y estremecedora, esta novela es un retrato vívido y conmovedor de la irrupción precoz del Alzheimer.Alice Howland está orgullosa de la vida que tanto esfuerzo le ha costado construir. A los cincuenta, es profesora de psicologia en Harvard y una linguistade fama mundial. Tiene un marido al que ama y tres hijos adultos. Cuando empieza a sentirse desorientada y olvidadiza, un tragico diagnostico cambia su vida para siempre.Bella y estremecedora, esta novela es un retrato vivido y conmovedor de la irrupcion precoz del Alzheimer. Al adentrarnos en la historia, nos enteramos de lo que Alice piensa y siente a medida que avanza la enfermedad, haciendola dejar de ser la persona que era y modificando su relacion con su familia y con el mundo.Un libro escrito con realismo y al mismo tiempo con ternura.Reseña:"Genova nos prueba que aunque perdamos la mente, conservaremos el corazon."Globe and Mail

Alice Howland está orgullosa de la vida que tanto esfuerzo le ha costado construir. A los cincuenta, es profesora de psicología cognitiva en Harvard y una experta lingüísta de fama mundial, con un marido exitoso y tres hijos adultos. Cuando empieza a sentirse desorientada y olvidadiza, un trágico diagnóstico cambia su vida, al tiempo que su relación con su familia y con el mundo, para siempre. Con elegancia y delicadeza, la autora nos acerca a los sentimientos de quienes padecen alzeihmer y sus familias. Una novela necesaria que se acerca con rigor, ternura y comprensión a una de las enfermedades más extendidas del mundo occidental. Un tema de sumo interés y actualidad: se calcula que 25 millones de personas padecen alzheimer en el mundo. En España existen actualmente más de 300.000 enfermos. A pesar de tratarse de un libro intimista se lee como un thriller. La autora consigue generar tanta empatía con el personaje protagonista que te sientes completamente involucrado e intrigado por lo que le vaya a suceder.

A virtuoso performance by the bestselling author of Still Alice, Lisa Genova delivers a stunning novel of finding harmony amidst the most tragic of situations. An accomplished concert pianist, Richard has already suffered many losses in his life: the acrimonious divorce from his ex-wife, Karina; the estrangement of his daughter, Grace; and now, a devastating diagnosis. ALS. The relentlessly progressive paralysis of ALS begins in the cruellest way possible - in his hands. As Richard becomes more and more locked inside his body and can no longer play piano or live on his own, Karina steps in as his reluctant caregiver. Paralysed in a different way, Karina is trapped within a prison of excuses and blame, stuck in an unfulfilling life as an after-school piano teacher, afraid to pursue the path she abandoned as a young woman. As Richard's muscles, voice and breath fade, the two struggle to reconcile their past before it's too late. With a strong musical sensibility and the staggering insight of Jojo Moyes' Me Before You, Lisa Genova has delivered a masterful exploration of what it means to find yourself within the most shattering of circumstances.

A moving and insightful story of a woman with early onset Alzheimer's disease, now a major film starring Academy Award nominee Julianne Moore.

"Lanueva novela de Lisa Genova promete hacer por la enfermedad de Huntington lo que Siempre Alice hizo por el Alzheimer. Ambos libros ofrecenunaexcelenteperspectiva de la mente de las personas que sufren enfermedades neurologicas degenerativas." The Huffington PostJoe O'Brien es un oficial de policia de cuarenta y cuatro años del barrio catolicoirlandes de Charlestown, Massachusetts. Marido amantisimo, orgulloso padre de cuatro hijos veinteañeros y profesional respetado, comienzaa experimentar ataques de confusion mental,inhabituales estallidos de mal humor y extraños movimientos involuntarios. Al principio atribuye dichos episodios al estres desu trabajo, pero a medida que los sintomas empeoran acepta ir a ver a un neurologo y recibe un diagnostico que cambiara su vida y la de su familia para siempre: sufre la enfermedad de Huntington, tambien conocida como mal de San Vito.LadeHuntington es una enfermedad neurodegenerativa letal para la cual no existe tratamiento ni cura. Cada uno de los cuatro hijos de Joe tiene un cincuentapor ciento de posibilidades de heredar el trastorno, y un sencillo analisis de sangre puede revelar su destino genetico.Al tiempo que observa su probable futuro en los sint

Contrario a lo que suele pensarse, olvidar es una función del cerebro humano, no un desperfecto. Se trata de un proceso para darle mayor fuerza a lo que sí recordamos. Una memoria sana es aquella que olvida y recuerda sin angustia. Lisa Genova, la afamada neurocientifica y autora de la novela Still Alice, retoma sus dos charlas TED con mas de 11 millones de vistas para explicar los diferentes tipos de olvido y de remembranza con el proposito de aprender a equilibrarlos; ademas de esclarecer los mitos sobre la prevencion del Alzheimer. A traves de anecdotas, ejemplos de peliculas, investigaciones cientificas y ejercicios mentales, aprende a ejercitar tu memoria y a cuidarla de las emociones, el estres y la falta de sueño. Recuerda un evento para toda la vida o simplemente dejalo ir.