Mezi dvěma světy – Jaouadová Suleika (2022)

In the summer after graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad was preparing, as they say in graduation speeches, to enter the "real world." She fell in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. However, the real world she found led her into a completely different war. It started with an itch – first on her foot, then on her legs, like a thousand invisible mosquito bites. Then came exhaustion; six hours of sleep only deepened the girl's fatigue. A visit to the doctor followed, and a few weeks before her twenty-third birthday came the diagnosis: leukemia with only a thirty-five percent chance of survival. From the life she had dreamed of, only a pile of ashes remained. When Suleika flew home to New York, she lost her job, her apartment, and her independence. She spent the greater part of the next four years in a hospital bed, fighting for her life and chronicling the entire saga in a column for the New York Times. When Suleika finally left the oncology department – after endless cycles of chemotherapy, clinical trials, and a bone marrow transplant – she was deemed healthy by the doctors. However, she would soon discover that healing does not end at the moment of recovery; rather, it begins there. She spent 1,500 days in a desperate fight for one goal – to survive.…