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Entah mengapa aku
merasa sangat berjodoh dengan novel anak-anak. Bisa kubilang kalau aku lebih
jatuh cinta pada novel anak-anak daripada novel-novel young-adult atau
dewasa. Mungkin karena pada dasarnya aku memang menyukai anak-anak. Salah satu
novel yang kubaca di bulan Maret 2015 ini adalah Wonder karya R.J Palacio.
Sudah sejak Januari ingin kubaca tapi harus kembali ke rak karena beberapa
kesibukan lainnya.
Judul
: Wonder
Penulis
: R.J Palacio
Penerbit : Corgi
Childrens
Tahun terbit : Januari 2012
Halaman : 315
Bahasa
: Inggris
Genre
: Novel Anak-anak
You can't blend in when you were born to stand out.
My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.
August Pullman wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things. He eats ice cream. He plays on his Xbox. He feels ordinary - inside.
But Auggie is far from ordinary. Ordinary kids don't make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids don't get stared at wherever they go.
Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life, in an attempt to protect him from the cruelty of the outside world. Now, for the first time, he's being sent to a real school - and he's dreading it. All he wants is to be accepted - but can he convince his new classmates that he's just like them, underneath it all?
Narrated by Auggie and the people around him whose lives he touches forever, Wonder is a funny, frank, astonishingly moving debut to read in one sitting, pass on to others, and remember long after the final page. (Goodreads synopsis).
You can't blend in when you were born to stand out.
My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.
August Pullman wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things. He eats ice cream. He plays on his Xbox. He feels ordinary - inside.
But Auggie is far from ordinary. Ordinary kids don't make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids don't get stared at wherever they go.
Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life, in an attempt to protect him from the cruelty of the outside world. Now, for the first time, he's being sent to a real school - and he's dreading it. All he wants is to be accepted - but can he convince his new classmates that he's just like them, underneath it all?
Narrated by Auggie and the people around him whose lives he touches forever, Wonder is a funny, frank, astonishingly moving debut to read in one sitting, pass on to others, and remember long after the final page. (Goodreads synopsis).
Wonder mengisahkan
seorang anak laki-laki berusia sepuluh tahun bernama August Pullman.
Auggie begitu panggilannya, adalah anak yang normal seperti anak-anak
kebanyakan kecuali dalam satu hal. Wajahnya. Ia mengidap sebuah kelainan
genetik yang mengakibatkan wajahnya tidak seperti orang normal kebanyakan.
Serangkaian operasi bedah sudah dilalui Auggie sejak ia masih bayi namun tetap
saja tidak banyak membantu. Kedua mata Auggie tidak pada tempat yang
semestinya, salah satu matanya turun hingga ke pipi dan yang satu lebih kecil
dari yang lain. Hidung Auggie pun jika kuimajinasikan menyerupai hidung rata
Voldemort. Dan mulutnya sumbing karena bentuk rahang Auggie yang tidak normal.
Kedua telinganya pun berada di posisi yang tidak seimbang.
