The yellow world
Subtitle: how fighting for my life taught me how to live
By: Albert Espinosa
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9780345538123; 9780345538116
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Self realization; Love & Romance; Cancer; Philosophy; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary; Childhood and youth; Literary; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS; Patients; Health; Psychological aspects; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Love & Romance; Self-actualization (Psychology); Biography
Work titles: Mundo amarillo
Description: "In The Yellow World Espinosa tackles the subjects of life, death and love with wry humor and sharp insight, relating the discoveries he made during his 10-year battle with cancer as a teenager in a narrative that is both funny and touching"--
Notes: This translation originally published: United Kingdom : Particular Books, 2012.

"First published in Spain as El Mundo Amarillo by Random House Mondadori, S.A., 2008"--Title page verso.
Table of contents: title: [1] Beginning ...; title: The Yellow World; title: Where Were You Born?; title: What Is the Yellow World?; title: [2] Carrying On ...; title: List of Discoveries to Make Your World Yellow; title: 1. Losses are positive; title: 2. The word pain doesn't exist; title: 3. The energy that appears after thirty minutes is what you need to solve a problem; title: 4. Ask five good questions every day; title: 5. Show me how you walk and I'll show you how to laugh; title: 6. When you are sick, they keep tabs on your life, a medical record. When you are well, you should do the same: keep a life record; title: 7. There are seven tricks to being happy; title: 8. What you hide the most reveals the most about you; title: 9. Put your lips together and blow; title: 10. Don't be afraid of being the person you have become; title: 11. Find what you like looking at, then look at it; title: 12. Start counting at six; title: 13. The search for the south and the north; title: 14. Listen to yourself when you're angry; title: 15. Positive wanking; title: 16. The difficult thing isn't accepting how you are, but how everyone else is; title: 17. The power of contrasts; title: 18. Hibernate for twenty minutes; title: 19. Look for your hospital roommates outside the hospital; title: 20. Do you want to share an REM with me?; title: 21. The power of the first time; title: 22. A way never to get angry; title: 23. The best way to know if you love someone; title: Twenty-three Discoveries That Connect Two Ages : From Fourteen to Twenty-four; title: [3] Living ...; title: The Yellows; title: How Do You Find Yellows and How Do You Identify Them?; title: Yellow Q & A; title: Conclusions About Yellows; title: [4] And Relax ...; title: The Yellow End; title: Epilogue; title: Afterword / by Eloy Azorin.