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My Heart Stopped Beating A True Story Teen Survivor Memories of Horror Mad Houses in Italy Chamed Beniamino Soressi 9788890597701 Books

My Heart Stopped Beating is a true story on one women's journey through hell and back.

Chamed de Silva was born to parents who adored her and until the day she was vaccinated for polio, life was blissful. However, complications set in and Chamed actually contracts polio and is left paralyzed.

Her father is determined to see her walk and talk again and works with her every day. Her mother believes she is a result of sin and believes that she will never be whole again. After many years of therapy, Chamed surprises her mother and walks.

When Chamed is fourteen, she falls in love with Guiliano and her mother is terrified she will become a young pregnant teenager and works to keep the two separate. When the summer comes, her mother plans to take her to Venice for the holidays.

After much pleading and begging, she convinces her parents to let her stay at home for a little longer before joining her mother in Venice. However, before the day is over, a terrible tragedy occurs and Chamed is left to fight for her own survival.

Chamed's aunt cannot stand the golden princess and does all in her power to demean and humiliate Chamed. She keeps her friends away, her boyfriend and makes up stories to the neighbours about being a witch. When she feels Chamed may have help coming, she has her committed to an insane asylum where life becomes a living hell.

Subjected to all kinds of torment and torture, Chamed spends the next year slowly dying inside until Dr. Franco and his wife come along and devise a plan to save Chamed's life. Will they be successful or will Chamed be doomed to spend the rest of her life in a madhouse?

This is a debut novel by author, Chamed. It has been translated from Italian and I must say it is a difficult read for the most part. The English is broken and disjointed and sometimes you truly haven't a clue what is being shared and you have to reread certain parts to get the gist of what is occurring.

I think with better editing this can be a truly remarkable book which could enable others to learn from the atrocities that occurred to Chamed. The horrors that she endured at the hands of those who were in trust was astonishing and heart rendering to read. I couldn't imagine an Aunt hating as much as hers did, and to be left as she was and have to survive the madness is commendable.

I am glad that Chamed had someone to turn to in the end and that the end of her story did not end in another tragedy. All in all, if you can get past the grammar and punctuation, then you will enjoy this book. As well, there is mild to moderate expletives and some situations may be disturbing.


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My Heart Stopped Beating A True Story Teen Survivor Memories of Horror Mad Houses in Italy Chamed Beniamino Soressi 9788890597701 Books Reviews

I won this book through LibraryThing Early Reviewers.
The English translation was not faultless, but it didn't stop the book from being very moving.
At first I felt a bit uncomfortable, voyeuristic knowing the horror that befalls the narrator is a true story, but it's a painful yet necessary document on what happened to an orphan through relatives and a mad house ; moreover Chamed teaches us courage and shows us that with the love she received she was able to get out of the hell she was in.
This is a heart-breaking story about Chamad, a teenage girl who is born disabled, but thanks to a loving father she learns to talk as well as walk. As a teenager she meets a boy and falls in love and then, after years of hard struggling, the future looks bright and promising.
Then the disaster strikes, both her parents die in a traffic accident and she goes and lives with her uncle and aunt. Her aunt has once been the girlfriend of Chamad's fathers and is still in love with him. Now, when the aunt has a child of her own, she hates Chamad and makes her life a living hell.
What happens next is for you to find out by reading the book. I'm giving it five stars because it is a real page-turner and impossible to put down and I'm looking forward to the next novel by Chamad. Hopefully she will find a better translator.
This was a first read giveaway book I received, thank you Chamed and Good Reads! It was a good book, but it was a very sad story since it is based on a true story. Yes, there are some areas where the dialog is off, or doesn't make sense but it is translated from another language. Even though the dialog may be a little hard to read at some times, you knew what was going on. However what this young woman and now a woman, you can't believe what she went through, it was a true hell. I can't believe how there is really hateful people that our out there, even really evil. But I am glad that she was raised with love and that she was able to enjoy the love of her parents while they were alive, so that she was able to have such a pure heart. She endured so much redicule and abuse that one would think she would have given up, even though at the end she believed she did, but I think she was still strong and was still fighting. I am glad that at the end she was able to escape and still have people in her life that truely loved and cared for her. People who were able to see how beautiful and pure she really is. I am glad she got to keep her first and only true love in her life, she was truley lucky to have someone to care and love her even through all she went through. Its a beautiful ending, like happily ever after, but that one year she went through hell, she deserves a better life, a happy life, where no one can tell her otherwise. A must read...
I feel a little bad giving this book a crappy review because its clear the author went through some pretty horrific experiences. However, I feel like I should be honest in my comments about the book.

When I saw the description for this book, I was thinking I would be receiving a work chronicling a patient's experiences as a ward of the Italian psychiatric facility that's described. I was expecting footnotes, details, dates, but this book is just a jumbled mess. There is no detail, the author skips from one line to the next without any sense of time or importance.

The writing was bad...really bad. I'm not sure if it was just a terrible translation, or what, but it was really distracting and made the story hard to grasp. It reads as though an eight year old wrote it, which would be endearing if the author was eight, but she's not. She's a grown woman. Where was the editor in this book? The whole thing was more like a jumble of ideas, or a rough draft of a novel, definitely not a finished piece. I'm annoyed because this could have been such a heart wrenching and beautiful story if time and effort had been put into it. At 139 pages, it just didn't feel like the author even cared. At least it was over quickly.
My Heart Stopped Beating is a true story on one women's journey through hell and back.

Chamed de Silva was born to parents who adored her and until the day she was vaccinated for polio, life was blissful. However, complications set in and Chamed actually contracts polio and is left paralyzed.

Her father is determined to see her walk and talk again and works with her every day. Her mother believes she is a result of sin and believes that she will never be whole again. After many years of therapy, Chamed surprises her mother and walks.

When Chamed is fourteen, she falls in love with Guiliano and her mother is terrified she will become a young pregnant teenager and works to keep the two separate. When the summer comes, her mother plans to take her to Venice for the holidays.

After much pleading and begging, she convinces her parents to let her stay at home for a little longer before joining her mother in Venice. However, before the day is over, a terrible tragedy occurs and Chamed is left to fight for her own survival.

Chamed's aunt cannot stand the golden princess and does all in her power to demean and humiliate Chamed. She keeps her friends away, her boyfriend and makes up stories to the neighbours about being a witch. When she feels Chamed may have help coming, she has her committed to an insane asylum where life becomes a living hell.

Subjected to all kinds of torment and torture, Chamed spends the next year slowly dying inside until Dr. Franco and his wife come along and devise a plan to save Chamed's life. Will they be successful or will Chamed be doomed to spend the rest of her life in a madhouse?

This is a debut novel by author, Chamed. It has been translated from Italian and I must say it is a difficult read for the most part. The English is broken and disjointed and sometimes you truly haven't a clue what is being shared and you have to reread certain parts to get the gist of what is occurring.

I think with better editing this can be a truly remarkable book which could enable others to learn from the atrocities that occurred to Chamed. The horrors that she endured at the hands of those who were in trust was astonishing and heart rendering to read. I couldn't imagine an Aunt hating as much as hers did, and to be left as she was and have to survive the madness is commendable.

I am glad that Chamed had someone to turn to in the end and that the end of her story did not end in another tragedy. All in all, if you can get past the grammar and punctuation, then you will enjoy this book. As well, there is mild to moderate expletives and some situations may be disturbing.