Marcelo in the Real World

Marcelo in the Real World

Unabridged

Audio CD (10 Mar 2009)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Marcelo Sandoval hears music that nobody else can hear–part of an autism-like condition that no doctor has been able to identify. But his father has never fully believed in the music or Marcelo’s differences, and he challenges Marcelo to work in the mailroom of his law firm for the summer. . . to join “the real world.”

There Marcelo meets Jasmine, his beautiful and surprising coworker, and Wendell, the son of another partner in the firm. He learns about competition and jealousy, anger and desire. But it’s a picture he finds in a file–a picture of a girl with half a face–that truly connects him with the real world: its suffering, its injustice, and what he can do to fight.

Reminiscent ofThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Timein the intensity and purity of its voice, this extraordinary audiobook is a love story, a legal drama, and a celebration of the music each of us hears inside.

Book information

ISBN: 9780739379899
Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Imprint: Listening Library
Pub date:
Edition: Unabridged
Weight: 254g
Height: 152mm
Width: 130mm
Spine width: 30mm