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Publisher: Wond_oc
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.13
Height: 0.10 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Some silences are empty. This one is full.
When sixteen-year-old Arya Pratama transfers to a new school, he expects the usual challenges: new teachers,陌生的 faces, the ordinary chaos of being the new student. What he doesn't expect is the silence.
In Ibu Agnes's literature classroom, thirty students sit in perfect rows, writing in perfect synchrony, never speaking unless spoken to. No whispers. No laughter. No argument. The silence has weight. It presses against his ears. It watches.
Arya has always noticed things-the gaps in patterns, the missing pieces. And in that classroom, he notices the empty desk in the back corner, the desperate note hidden in his lesson sheet, the name carved into the wood: RAKA WAS HERE.
But the more Arya investigates, the more he realizes: Ibu Agnes knows he's watching. She designed him to. And the students who disappear from her classroom don't transfer. They fade-into a network of facilities run by a shadow organization called the Institute for Human Potential Development.
With the help of Nisa, a classmate who has been quietly documenting the strange changes in her own memory, Arya races to uncover the truth before the conditioning closes in on him. But the gaps in his own awareness are growing. The handwriting in his notebook is changing. And the voice he hears on recordings of class is his own-saying words he never chose to speak.
Where Silence Watches You is a psychological thriller about the terrifying power of manufactured attention, the fragility of the self, and what happens when the person who is supposed to teach you decides to rewrite you instead.
Perfect for readers of The Secret History, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, and Never Let Me Go.
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