Hope and love are two powerful tools to beat cancer. Two attributes that emerge from the book Shine a light. Words from cancer, a compendium of 38 stories coordinated by Iria F. Silva and Elena Arribas, with the participation of the José Hierro Poetry Center Foundation, the Metastatic Breast Cancer Association and the IES Galileo Galilei, which brings together the testimonies of people who narrate their experience in this battle against disease.
The project arose when Iria contracted the cancer that unfortunately took her life last year. Professor and Head of Studies at the Galileo Galilei school in Alcorcón, she joined forces with Carolina Africa, a playwright and also a resident of Alcorcón, to develop a literary work with stories from people from all social fields, who will narrate the relationship with the disease.
Poems, stories and even scores make up this book. “All from a very positive point of view, very bright,” explains journalist Elena Arribas, author of the prologue and coordinator of the last section of this literary project, to Al Cabo de la Calle. The 38 authors who have participated in this solidarity challenge, which serves as invaluable support to those who are facing cancer today, narrate in first person their experience of the disease, from an exciting point of view, and where the patient “is going to feel accompanied and can get something positive “. And it is that the writers present themselves defining themselves and telling what is the best of the worst, since even in the darkest moments, the light manages to make its way.
Cancer is synonymous on many occasions with pain, suffering and death, but also with hugs and discoveries, with more love and strength than we thought we were capable of. As the authors of this anthology say, cancer makes you feel love without more, teaches you to wait, makes you choose the life we take for granted. It teaches you to live. You realize that most of the time you can only reach out; to help or to help you. This anthology pretends to be that: an outstretched hand ”, points out Arribas.
Among those firms are people linked to Alcorcón, such as Isabel Miguel, Javier Samper, Raquel Fernández Silva, Sergio Príncipe, José Ramón Velasco, Cristina Sánchez Aguilar, Mamen Martín de Riquer, María Castosa, Belén Vila García and Jezabel Alonso Chocano. Along with them poets such as Marta Agudo, Chus Arellano, Olga Muñoz, Isabel Miguel and Ignacio Miranda and the musician Rakel G., who has composed a song for the cause.
RESEARCH AGAINST CANCER
The entire proceeds will go to the INTHEOS Foundation, since all the writers have participated altruistically. It is a non-profit institution that has been working since 2010 in biomedical research in oncology, to finance the liquid biopsy project in advanced breast cancer, one of the latest advances to identify tumor biomarkers more quickly and less invasive.
It is precisely through the Foundation and the Editorial Lastura where you can purchase a copy, and support research that, like this work, saves lives.
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