Kirjahaku

Karina's Song is an unrelenting and awe inspiring true story, of a young mothers heartbreaking battle to try and save the life of her two year old daughter, who had been given just three weeks to live, but also to save her own life and sanity. Forced to confront the harsh realities of years of a horrific past, which had left her broken and disillusioned, the author takes you on a deeply emotional rollercoaster ride of her life. Distraught by the possibility of losing her daughter she is also confronted by an unseen world beyond her comprehension that begins to terrify her. Karina introduces her mother to her "friends" with whom she communicates with on a daily basis and tries to get her to open her mind to the world "beyond the veil." This pushes her mother's sanity and beliefs to a new level and inevitably makes her question her whole existence, the idea of fate and destiny and the concept of life after death.When time had run out for this mother and daughter Karina made a heartfelt request. She wanted Whitney Houston's song "The Greatest Love of All" played "On her big day when she went up in the sky" She called it "Karina's Song" because she wanted everyone to love everyone and everyone to love kids.Karina's message would ultimately leave a legacy so profound, that is has changed the lives of thousands of people around the world for over three decades.So began her mother's journey to Search for The Greatest Love of All.This book is a powerful message of hope for anyone who has fallen so deep, and lost so great that they believe they will never recover.

‘I had only one eye, I was hungry and cold, yet I wanted to live… so that I could tell it all just as I’ve told you.’ - From Zofia Nalkowska’s Medallions (1947). Witness to two world wars and Poland’s struggle for independence, Zofia Nalkowska’s commitment to recording all is her gift to European literature. Her own story of love affairs, family loyalty and survival is remarkable in itself. Yet, her determination to record others’ truth, however painful, ties her fate to a nation whose battle for identity is both brutal and romantic. Her most renowned work, Medallions, a collection of short stories, exposes and restores dignity to people reduced, through Nazi occupation, to burnt out ghettos and guillotined heads heaped ‘like potatoes’. In contrast, as a keen and visionary observer of beauty, Nalkowska is innovative in exploring motherhood’s psychological imprint and the blurred boundaries of male and female relationships. Drawing on her own background as a poet and Polish Studies graduate, Jenny’s Robertson’s literary biography celebrates the achievements of a pioneering writer whose love of life not only propelled her to fame, but gave her the courage to witness atrocity. In doing so, Nalkowska’s life and writing reflect and inform Europe's cultural heritage.