Almond : a novel / Won-Pyung Sohn
Material type: TextPublication details: New York Harper Collins 2020Description: 259 pISBN:- 9780063266919
- Fiction SOH-W
Item type | Current library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Books | BITS Pilani Hyderabad | FIC | Fiction Section (For lending) | Fiction SOH-W (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | INR 499.00. | Checked out | 13/08/2024 | 47832 |
This story is, in short, about a monster meeting another monster. One of the monsters is me. Yunjae was born with a brain condition called alexithymia that makes it hard for him to feel emotions. He does not have friends—the two almond-shaped neurons located deep in his brain have seen to that—but his devoted mother and grandmother provide him with a safe and con- tent life. On Christmas Eve—Yunjae’s sixteenth birthday—everything changes. A shocking act of random violence shatters his world, leaving him on his own. Struggling to cope with his loss, Yunjae retreats into silent isolation, until troubled teenager Gon arrives at his school, and the two develop a surprising bond. As Yunjae begins to open his life to new people—including a girl at school—something slowly changes inside him. And when Gon suddenly finds his life at risk, Yunjae will have the chance to step outside of every comfort zone he has created to perhaps become the hero of his own story.
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