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19 of July of 2024
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Boundless now has a new format. This time, the month's reading suggestions come from our Bookseller, Beatriz Marinho. Her favorite literary genre is Fantasy! She likes to read on the train, at the end of the day, on the journey home. For Bia, the Studio Ghibli playlist is the perfect companion to enjoy these two reading suggestions. She chose “Almonds” for its intense, captivating story and the empathy she felt for the main character. She chose “Patagonia Express” because of her passion for travel literature, South America and Patagonia.
Almonds, Won-Pyung Sohn
What if we couldn't identify or express what we felt?
The Korean novel that has touched the hearts of millions of readers.
There are six syllables in the word that determined Yunjae's life: alexithymia, the inability to identify and express feelings. Born with this neurological condition, Yunjae doesn't know what fear, sadness, anger or desire are. Yunjae has no friends. Two almond-shaped structures located in his brain have brutally conditioned him, but his mother and grandmother are his safe haven. In the small apartment where they live, above his mother's second-hand bookshop, there are colored papers scattered around the rooms, reminding Yunjae when to smile, be grateful or worry.
However, on his 16th birthday, Christmas Eve, an atrocious act of violence destroys everything Yunjae knows, robs him of his ground and leaves him completely alone. As he struggles to come to terms with the loss, the teenager isolates himself more and more in silence - until the arrival of Gon, the troubled new student at school with whom he forms a surprising bond of friendship.
Slowly, Yunjae gets closer to others - including a girl - and something begins to change inside him. There are many things he doesn't understand, but when Gon's life is in danger, Yunjae sees before him the opportunity to become the person he never, ever imagined he could be.
This story is, in a nutshell, about a monster who meets another monster.
One of the monsters is me.
Patagonia Express, Luís Sepúlveda
A tribute to a train that no longer exists, but which continues to travel in the memory of the men and women of Patagonia, these “travel notes” - as Luis Sepúlveda called them - have become one of the reference books of the great Chilean author.
From his first steps in political activism, which led him to prison and then exile in different South American countries, to his happy reunion, years later, with Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, it's a long journey (and a long memory) that Luis Sepúlveda offers us in this book.
Throughout it, we are confronted with an extensive gallery of unforgettable characters and a series of magnificent stories, the kind that only a great writer can pull out of the labyrinths of life.
Almonds, Won-Pyung Sohn
What if we couldn't identify or express what we felt?
The Korean novel that has touched the hearts of millions of readers.
There are six syllables in the word that determined Yunjae's life: alexithymia, the inability to identify and express feelings. Born with this neurological condition, Yunjae doesn't know what fear, sadness, anger or desire are. Yunjae has no friends. Two almond-shaped structures located in his brain have brutally conditioned him, but his mother and grandmother are his safe haven. In the small apartment where they live, above his mother's second-hand bookshop, there are colored papers scattered around the rooms, reminding Yunjae when to smile, be grateful or worry.
However, on his 16th birthday, Christmas Eve, an atrocious act of violence destroys everything Yunjae knows, robs him of his ground and leaves him completely alone. As he struggles to come to terms with the loss, the teenager isolates himself more and more in silence - until the arrival of Gon, the troubled new student at school with whom he forms a surprising bond of friendship.
Slowly, Yunjae gets closer to others - including a girl - and something begins to change inside him. There are many things he doesn't understand, but when Gon's life is in danger, Yunjae sees before him the opportunity to become the person he never, ever imagined he could be.
This story is, in a nutshell, about a monster who meets another monster.
One of the monsters is me.
Patagonia Express, Luís Sepúlveda
A tribute to a train that no longer exists, but which continues to travel in the memory of the men and women of Patagonia, these “travel notes” - as Luis Sepúlveda called them - have become one of the reference books of the great Chilean author.
From his first steps in political activism, which led him to prison and then exile in different South American countries, to his happy reunion, years later, with Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, it's a long journey (and a long memory) that Luis Sepúlveda offers us in this book.
Throughout it, we are confronted with an extensive gallery of unforgettable characters and a series of magnificent stories, the kind that only a great writer can pull out of the labyrinths of life.
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