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Shocking in an unexpected way
This book was shocking in a very unexpected way. It tells a sad and depressing story mainly about loss: an old man not only loosing his wife due to a brutal murder, but slowly loosing his memories and sense of reality to progresive dementia as well. Right until the end, you never know what's real, if the appearance of the dead wife demanding the old man to take revenge on her murderer is some supernatural ghost thing or just the disturbing imagination of a frail mind. Experiencing the effects of dementia by sharing the old man's confusion, anger and shame really was very unsettling, and I can't event closely imagine what it must be like to suffer from dementia or be close to a demented person.