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ISBN: 9780062961402

Content: " WALL STREET JOURNAL STORIES THAT CAN TAKE YOU ANYWHERE PICK * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S STAY HOME AND READ PICK * SALON'S BEST AND BOLDEST * BUSTLE'S MOST ANTICIPATED The Emissary meets The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime in this poignant and triumphant story about how love, friendship, and persistence can change a life forever. 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 like fear or anger. 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 content life. Their little home above his mother's used bookstore is decorated with colorful Post-it notes that remind him when to smile, when to say thank you, and when to laugh. Then on Christmas Eve Yunjae's sixteenth birthday everything changes. A shocking act of random violence shatters his world, leaving him alone and on his own. Struggling to cope with his loss, Yunjae retreats into silent isolation, until troubled teenager Gon arrives at his school, and they 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 he never thought he would be. Readers of Wonder by R.J. Palaccio and Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig will appreciate this resonant story that gives Yunjae the courage to claim an entirely different story. (Booklist, starred review) "

Content: Biographisches: " Sohn Won-pyung is a film director, screenwriter, and novelist living in South Korea. She earned a BA in social studies and philosophy at Sogang University and film directing at the Korean Academy of Film Arts. She has won several prizes, including the Film Review Award of the 6th Cine21, and the Science Fantasy Writers' Award for her movie script I Believe in the Moment. She also wrote and directed a number of short films, including Oooh You Make Me Sick and A Two-way Monologue . She made her literary debut in 2017 with this, her first full-length novel, Almond , which won the Changbi Prize for Young Adult Fiction, followed by which won the Jeju 4.3 Peace Literary Award. " Biographisches: " Sandy Joosun Lee is a translator and interpreter based in Seoul. She earned a BA in Literature/Writing from the University of California, San Diego. She has received translation grants from Literary Translation Institute of Korea and Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea. She currently works at Studio Mir where she translates and develops animated content. " Rezension(3): "Madeleine Ryan, author of A Room Called Earth " Rezension(4): "Booklist (starred review) :In what might be the first novel to feature a protagonist with alexithymia—" Rezension(5): "Heinz Insu Fenkl, author of Memories of My Ghost Brother and translator of The Nine Cloud Dream by Kim Man-jung " Rezension(6): "-Jamie Marina Lau, author of Pink Mountain on Locust Island:Delicate and heartbreaking. Like peeling a fruit, Sohn bares human emotion and questions the human condition with a gentle hunger." Rezension(7): "Kirkus Reviews:In her debut novel, director and screenwriter Sohn makes the bold decision to choose an emotionally constricted first-person narrator, but the risk pays off. With the aid of a skillful translation...the novel will appeal fully to adults, but mature young readers who must cope in their everyday lives with the struggles of late adolescence will find themselves identifying with Yunjae and moved by his plight. A sensitive exploration of what it's like to live at life's emotional poles." Rezension(8): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: March 1, 2020 A Korean teenager struggles with a rare emotional impairment. Soon Yunjae, a highly intelligent teenage boy who lives with his mother and grandmother in Seoul, suffers from alexithymia, a defect believed to be rooted in the amygdala--the almond-shaped region of the brain--that renders him incapable of expressing, or even identifying, his emotions. Yunjae's antagonist, nicknamed Gon, has returned to his home after 13 years following a mysterious disappearance that saw him shunted among various foster homes and finally to a youth shelter. In that long exile, he's become a hardened juvenile delinquent, bitter toward the father he believes abandoned him and acting out at every opportunity. When Yunjae becomes the victim of an act of random violence that shatters his life and thrusts him into an unwanted state of independence, Gon, sensing his classmate's vulnerability, singles him out for special torment. The radical imbalance between Gon's physical and emotional abuse and Yunjae's inability to respond in any meaningful way fuels the novel's escalating tension and justifies Yunjae's blunt description of his story as one about a monster meeting another monster. But that imbalance subtly shifts as the two damaged boys inch toward something that looks like a friendship and becomes more complicated when a young girl named Dora enters the picture. In her debut novel, director and screenwriter Sohn makes the bold decision to choose an emotionally constricted first-person narrator, but the risk pays off. With the aid of a skillful translation, she conveys the hollowed-out feeling of Yunjae's life and his almost inexpressible desire to overcome it, heightened by the contrast with Gon's inability to control his rage. The novel will appeal fully to adults, but mature young readers who must cope in their everyday lives with the struggles of late adolescence will find themselves identifying with Yunjae and moved by his plight. A sensitive exploration of what it's like to live at life's emotional poles. COPYRIGHT(2020) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. " Rezension(9): "〈a href=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/ target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/libraryjournal_logo.png alt=Library Journal border=0 /〉〈/a〉: April 1, 2020 Debut Award-winning South Korean screenwriter/director Sohn's intimate and surprising debut novel features Yunjae, born with a condition that limits his ability to experience or even recognize emotion,in his brain, the almond-shaped organs governing feelings are smaller than normal. But this novel is not about disability, instead examining our capacity to connect. Yunjae's mother works tirelessly to teach him how to manage in a world he can't read and reaches out to her own estranged mother, who becomes a sharp-witted, doting grandma. When they are lost in a terrible Christmas eve shooting (it's Yunjae's 16th birthday), he soldiers on, helped by a sympathetic neighbor. At school, his imperturbability stymies the gangsterish Gon, who initially bullies him but then befriends him while inadvertently leading him to a dangerous edge. Will Gon and Yunjae's secret crush, Dora, help Yunjae learn to feel? VERDICT Impressively portraying Yunjae's shrugged-shoulder calm and efforts to understand his world, Sohn offers a heartening study of human emotion. Copyright 2020 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. " Rezension(10): "〈a href=https://www.booklistonline.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/booklist_logo.png alt=Booklist border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from April 15, 2020 Novels featuring neurodiverse protagonists are claiming more space on both adult and children's shelves. The most common underlying message encourages kindness and empathy, despite obvious, sometimes impenetrable, differences. In what might be the first novel to feature a protagonist with alexithymia?an inability to identify and express one's feelings, initially documented in medical journals in the 1970s?Korean screenwriter/director/novelist Sohn's affecting debut arrives stateside, Anglophone-enabled by Lee, who began translating purely out of my enjoyment. Despite shocking violence?gruesome murders, butterfly dismemberment?the adjectives pure and enjoyment do, ironically, truly describe Yunjae's story. Raised by his grandmother and mother who worked diligently to guide him through everyday social interactions, Yunjae at 15 is effectively orphaned: his grandmother is dead, his mother comatose. A guardian-of-sorts who lives above the used bookstore the trio called home, appears to help navigate daily challenges, gently guiding Yunjae through the possibility of new relationships with the bully who's convinced Yunjae usurped the most important moment of his life and the first girl whose attention Yunjae seeks. As Yunjae risks communication and connection, the eponymous almond?the undeveloped amygdalae of his brain that controls emotions?takes seed, and (in accordance with new studies, Sohn adds in her author's notes) gives Yunjae the courage to claim an entirely different story. New and unknown. (Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2020, American Library Association.) "

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