Fault In Our Stars

New Soft cover Text/NEW & Bright. Softcover/Fine. First published in 2012; this is the 1st 2013 Penguin Edition. NY Times bestseller, written for young adult readers by John Green (1977 -); title is inspired by Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, in which the nobleman Cassius says to Brutus: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves ---." Narrated in the first person by 16-year old Hazel Grace Lancaster, w/thyroid cancer affecting her lungs. Hazel, forced by parents, attends a Cancer Kid Support group. There she meets & falls in love w/17-year-old Augustus Waters, an ex-basketball player, amputee & survivor of Osteosarcoma. A tale of terminal illness, and, what proves not to be! 313 pgs. Sensitive novel of life & death, and people caught in between that makes one both laugh & cry. Novel adapted to film 2014 under the same title in the US, and, in India as Dil Bechara; both critically appraised.