THE BOY WITH CUCKOO CLOCK HEART

THE BOY WITH THE CUCKOO-CLOCK HEAT

 BY MATHIAS MALZIEU

SUMMARY
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Brooding, cruel-faced, handsome, Mathias Malzieu glares out from the endpapers of his book, originally published in France as La mécanique du coeur. The biography claims he's a rock star, but my research with French teenagers, garagistes and a CD shopkeeper brought blanks. Either way, this, Malzieu's third book, proves he has a way with metaphor.







MAIN MESSAGE

If you're frightened of damaging yourself, you increase the risk of doing just that. Consider the tightrope walker. Do you think he spares any thought for falling while he's walking the rope? No, he accepts the risk, and enjoys the thrill of braving the danger. If you spend your whole life being careful not to break anything, you'll get terribly bored, you know... I can't think of anything more fun than being impulsive.”


 

THE MADMAN´S TALE

By Jhon Katzenbach

Summary

 

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 It begins in 1979, when twenty-one-year-old Petrel descends into the state-run purgatory of an overcrowded, understaffed Massachusetts mental hospital. Surrounded by inmates roaming the halls like drugged zombies and raving behind locked doors, well-meaning orderlies, jaded nurses, and patronizing doctors, Francis finds friendship with a motley assortment of fellow patients: a would-be Napoleon, a wise ex-firefighter, and a man obsessed with battling imagined devils. But there’s nothing imaginary about the young nurse found sexually assaulted and brutally murdered late one night after lights-out.

  MAIN MESSAGE

•Sometimes the crazy people see the world in a better way than the normal people

•We are afraid of changes. We are scared to stay the same. We are terrified of anything out of the ordinary, or a change in routine

 

 

 

The zahir

The narrator of  The Zahir  is a bestselling novelist who lives in Paris and enjoys all the privileges money and celebrity bring. His wife of ten years, Esther, is a war correspondent who has disappeared along with a friend, Mikhail, who may or may not be her lover.Was Esther kidnapped, murdered, or did she simply escape a marriage that left her unfulfilled? The narrator doesn’t have any answers, but he has plenty of questions of his own. Then one day Mikhail finds the narrator and promises to reunite him with his wife. In his attempt to recapture a lost love, the narrator discovers something unexpected about himself.

"Wen I was trying to find her, I fund my self"

MAIN IDEA

We often want people to love us in the same way that we love them, but love manifests itself in different ways and we have to understand that although each person has different ways of loving does not mean that they do not love us deeply.

"Veronika Decides to Die" tells the story of a young woman's transformation from despairing would-be suicide to affirmed and then affirming survivor. 
This book offers an archetypal story of hope, portraying a situation in which joy, freedom, integrity and truth all remain possible under the most challenging and limiting of circumstances. 
In doing so, the narrative thematically explores the nature of insanity, the importance of living a genuine life, and the threats to individual identity imposed by closed communities and the rules under which they function.