![]() Serbian Zedka Mendel, lacking a necessary brain chemical, endures megadoses of insulin that send her into comas. Initially rebelling against her keepers’ solicitous rules and regulations (``I'm not here to preserve my life, but to lose it,” she reminds a nurse), she finds first her curiosity and then, gradually, her passions aroused by her fellow patients. She awakens in Villette, Slovenia’s notorious lunatic asylum, to learn that she’s damaged her heart irreparably and has only a week to live. Here, he returns to the world of mental hospitals indirectly via Veronika, a Ljubljana librarian who-tired of the fact that, at 24, she already finds every day like every other and can’t imagine any future but increasing boredom, decay, and death-takes an overdose of sleeping pills. ![]() A touching, if overexplicit, fable about learning to live in the face of death.Īs he confides in an early chapter, Coelho himself ( The Fifth Mountain, 1998, etc.) was apparently institutionalized simply because his adolescent behavior baffled his parents. ![]()
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