Making her days count, the story unfolds incidents that happen around Veronika that doubts her own choices made to take her life. With the failed suicide attempt, Veronika gets a deadline to live. Also, describes how similar most of our lives are in terms of how we have conditioned our selves to behave in a socially acceptable way. There is a bit of dark humor that keeps the story vibrant during these scenes. The story starts off with describing in detail why Veronika wants to die, and why it's not because she is depressed or because she is suffering from any other usual condition that drives people to suicide. The author who got famous for the book The Alchemist, another amazing read. About, how a failed attempt to suicide changed a person. The summary behind the cover grabbed my eye. I managed to grab a copy of Veronika Decides to Die from a bookstore in Colombo, during my trip back home last June.
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