Ghost Boy: My Miraculous Escape from a Life Locked Inside My Own Body by Martin Pistorius

Ghost Boy: My Miraculous Escape from a Life Locked Inside My Own Body

Martin Pistorius with Megan Lloyd Davies

288 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography memoir emotional slow-paced

Description

They all thought he was gone. But he was alive and trapped inside his own body for ten years. In January 1988 Martin Pistorius, aged twelve, fell inexplicably sick. First he lost his voice and stopped eating. Then he slept constantly and shunned ...

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funny 2%
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