VULA BEVALILE: LETTERS FROM A YOUNG DOCTOR MAITHRI GOONETILLEKE
Vula Bevalile: Letters from a Young Doctor is a collection of vignettes written over seven years by Maithri Goonetilleke, who has been contributing his time voluntarily in Swaziland—a country devastated by extreme poverty and the HIV and AIDS epidemic.
Through the stories, the reader is taken on an incredible journey across a landscape of extreme adversity and medical and economic hardship. But it is the final, overwhelming sense of humanity that is most striking and empowering. The ultimate outcome for the reader is a profound understanding of a people with enormous resilience, pride, humility, and courage.
In beautifully limpid and pared-back prose, Maithri Goonetilleke distils his experiences in Swaziland …. Words such as “uplifting” and “profound” cannot begin to capture the quiet potency of the stories he tells about the people he works with and treats. – The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald
This book calls on us to think again, to ask ourselves what we are doing in our own lives and why. – Paul A. Komesaroff (Professor of Medicine and Director, Centre for Ethics in Medicine and Society, Monash University, and Executive Director of Global Reconciliation, Australia)
Title: Vula Bevalile: Letters From A Young Doctor
Author: Maithri Goonetilleke
Description: Vula Bevalile: Letters from a Young Doctor is a collection of vignettes written over seven years by Maithri Goonetilleke, who has been contributing his time voluntarily in Swaziland—a country devastated by extreme poverty and the HIV and AIDS epidemic.