Altabano, Fiona Apple A.

11 STEM PM1
 Book Summary

The main character of the book is Veronika she is a young girl who has all
the things in life. She lives in the capital city of Slovenia yet she is not happy
so one winter morning she takes an overdose of powerful sleeping pills.
Unfortunately for her she doesn't die instead a week later she wakes up in
Villette the feared and much lunatic mental asylum.

There she is told that though she is alive but her heart is badly damaged and
she only has a few days to live. In these intense days she begins to question
her existence and ideas about life. Soon she begins to realize that every
second of life is worth living and against all odds she begins to find herself
falling in love with life and wanting to live again.

Here she meets different inmates of the hospital who have a great impact on
her life, like Zedka who is depressed in spite of having a loving family. She is
in search of a past lover but she has no clue where to find him and where to
begin her search. Then there is Mari a really successful lawyer who wished to
do something different but she starts having panic attacks. Eduard with
whom Veronika falls in love. He wishes to live his life on his own terms.

Paulo Coelho is trying to teach the reader several things alongside observing
his own promise to reveal his personal experiences of a doctor patient
relationship into a mental hospital. The main focus of the story is on
Veronika and her relationships with the other inmates of villette.