The book tells the story of seventeen-year-old John, who suffers from autism. His parents see the good in him, but the surrounding world only sees his faults.
John often made mistakes and always misunderstood things. He tries to fulfill the requests of the people around him to gain their satisfaction.
It is a tough period of development, bordering on isolation and difficulties at school.
John falls into the trap of his rivals and commits aggressive acts that lead him to decline.
But who bears John's fate?
Animal Friends is a poignant and transparent novel about isolation and vulnerability. Depicts the nostalgia and connections that can bind vulnerable people to each other.
The horizons of storytelling integrate like small overlapping circles, forming a tight narrative world.
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.. and may blessings and peace be upon His Noble Messenger..
When I decided to close the last page of my first book, “Alive in Love,” your love flowed more into my heart until it began to overflow onto new white pages, so I filled page after page until I gave you my second book filled with my love for you.
Zainab and Ahmed are two children who were separated from sharing school seats by Zainab’s move with her family to Ankara, and her boyfriend staying in Istanbul. The letters became their way of maintaining their friendship by exchanging funny stories, daily adventures, and discussing the oddities of the adult world: adults’ confusion in front of their managers, and parents’ desperation to showcase their children’s talents. “The wonderful ones” in front of the guests, and the parents’ insistence that they were all outstanding, obedient, honest, and of course the top of their class.
In this novel written for children, parents, and teachers alike, Aziz Nesin reconstructs events from the perspective through which children see the world, judging the behavior of adults and the double standards they live under. Like his always controversial books, the book - this time - provokes adults by revealing their image in the eyes of their children, thus asking: What happens to children when they grow up?
