BOOK REVIEW 'SURAT KECIL UNTUK TUHAN'

 BOOK REVIEW

Title                            : Surat Kecil Untuk Tuhan

Author                        : Agnes Danovar

Publisher                    : Inandra Published

Total Pages                : 228 Pages + X Pages

Publisher Year            : 2008

ISBN                         : 978-979-18346-3-6

            Agnes Danovar is a phenomenal writer in the world. She started her career by writing true story in her blog. ‘Surat Kecil Untuk Tuhan’  is her second novel based on a true story, that inspire a lot of people.

Surat Kecil Untuk Tuhan is a story about hope of life for a little girl who must struggled to fight her malignant cancer. Although, in the end she surrendered, but she was never failed against her cancer.

            Gita Sesa Wanda Cantika called Keke, she was an artist in 1998. She struggled to fight a cancer, Rabdomiosarkoma (Soft Tissue Sarcome) and predicted only had 5 days to live. The cancer was affected to her face and changed her beautiful face into a monster. She didn’t know about her illness, because her parents never told her. They decide not to tell her, so she can walk on her normal life in her last moment.

            But finally, Keke knew about her illness, she tough facing her cancer and proved to the world she can live as normal girl.

            Her father, Joddy Tri Aprianto never gave up. He tried as much as posible to find alternative theraphy, but he didn’t get any result. So, he cameback to medical treatment and agreed to do a chemotherapy. With chemothreapy, her condition was going better and better, even impacted to her body and hair. After 6 months theraphy, the doctors gave a statement that keke had recovered from her cancer. She live normally with her family & friends.

            After 3 years, the cancer had returned and spread from her eyes, heart, lung and other organs. The doctors can’t do anything because the therapy can’t killed the cancer anymore. In her last moment, she wrote a letter to God and ask all things in her dreams and no tears in the world.

Her last breath, 25 December 2006 after she held her fasting month & Idul Fitri with her family & friends. Her story is inspiring a lot of people in the world. In her cirsis condition, she proved to the world she can be a precious person by received appreciation from her school.

The story teaches us about true meaning of life, in painfull condition,  she can fighting the illness and facing the world with gracefully. Highly recomended story for teenange.

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