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Farmer’s intense, personal and sometimes combative relationship with Kidder had begun nearly a decade earlier with a chance meeting in Haiti, where Farmer operates a free medical clinic he founded in the mid-eighties. Kidder was researching an article on American military presence in the troubled island nation...
...Kidder was conducting interviews for a New Yorker profile of the outspoken doctor—and soon was shadowing Farmer on his daily routine of healing and advocating for the world’s destitute...
...Kidder has just published the results in Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World—an account as challenging as it is edifying. His latest non-fiction book is really two works in one: alongside the litany of Farmer’s achievements, recited with his usual eye for detail, Kidder unflinchingly explores the moral and emotional complexity surrounding the book’s creation...
...previous books—including House and The Soul of a New Machine—have won him the highest accolades, including a Pulitzer Prize for Soul. But from the project’s inception, Kidder says, he realized that Mountains Beyond Mountains would differ from his acclaimed portraits of urban schoolteachers, small-town police officers and house-builders...
...don’t mean to diss any of the subjects I’ve put my little efforts into, but this is clearly the most important subject I’ve ever written about,” Kidder says...