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Estʹ na svete piatiklassnik po imeni Avgust Pulman. S odnoĭ storony, on takoĭ zhe kak i drugie malʹchishki ego vozrasta – liubit khoditʹ na dni rozhdeniia k svoim druzʹiam, igratʹ v kompʹiuternye igry, on fanateet ot «Zvezdnykh voĭn», igraet so svoeĭ sobakoĭ, ssoritsia i miritsia so starsheĭ sestroĭ. A s drugoĭ, on sovsem ne takoĭ kak drugie malʹchishki ego vozrasta. Vo-pervykh, Avgust nikogda ne khodil v obychnuiu shkolu – s pervogo klassa s nim doma zanimalasʹ mama. Vo-vtorykh, Avgust perenes 27 operatsiĭ.Iz-za ochenʹ redkoĭ, no inogda vstrechaiushcheĭsia geneticheskoĭ oshibki u Avgusta net litsa. Ne pugaĭtesʹ. U nego estʹ glaza i nos, rot i ushi. No vse ėto peremeshano na ego litse tak, chto ne srazu i razbereshʹ. I s mladencheskogo vozrasta Avgust privyk k tomu, chto deti (da i ne kotorye vzroslye), brosiv vzgliad na ego litso, bystro otvorachivalisʹ, a to i udirali so vsekh nog.I vot takoĭ malʹchik dolzhen poĭti v shkolu. V pervyĭ raz. K obychnym detiam. Istoriiu o zhizni Avgusta (ego semʹi, starykh i novykh druzeĭ) v techenie odnogo uchebnogo goda rasskazala v svoem pervom romane amerikanka R.Dzh. Palasio.Ėto kniga ne o malʹchike-invalide. Malʹchike-bez-litsa. Malʹchike-nevidimke. Malʹchike-shokiruiushchem-okruzhaiushchikh.

There's a fifth grader named August Pullman. On the one hand, he is the same as other boys of his age – he likes to go to birthdays to his friends, play computer games, he is a fan of "Star wars", plays with his dog, quarrels and puts up with his older sister. On the other hand, he's not like other boys his age. First, August never went to a regular school – from the first grade with him at home doing mom. Second, the August underwent 27 operations.Due to a very rare but sometimes occurring genetic error August has no face. Not frighten. It has eyes and nose, mouth and ears. But all this is mixed on his face so that you can not immediately understand. And from infancy, Augustus was accustomed to the fact that children (and not that adults), glancing at his face, quickly turned away, and even fled from all legs.And here is such a boy should go to school. First time. To ordinary children. The story of the life of Augustus (his family, old and new friends) during one school year told in his first novel American R. J. Palacio.This book is not about a disabled boy. The boy with no face. The invisible boy. The boy-shocking-others.