This is brilliant! .. first i thought it is a regular novel ; but at the end it's just something that you didn't even thought about ... it'll change your perspective...
The writing style is great and attractive. Even though we understand what’s going on, within the first few pages, the way the author presets it, keeps us reading through. The psychological behavior of the character helps us to understand what the reality is, how we interpret it.
As I always thought, “Reality is the fantasy we choose to believe” ! This book reminded me the same. ❤️
I reckon that the writer has competently captured the realistic character qualities of the characters and the book itself is fascinating. The ending could be enhanced, but it wasn't terrible. Easily the best Sinhalese book I read recently.
My first book for the year. A novella. Focusing on mental illness and forensics.
As a psychiatrist, I found a few inconsistencies with facts when developing the main character. But I wasn’t too fussed as the writing was interesting and writer has the liberty to create.
What I couldn’t agree with was the final part where the lawyer starts educating the court on psychology. I felt that the writer has either skimmed through some texts and taken a few sentence from here or there and tried to fit them in, or if he is well read in psychology, he hasn’t actually grasped some of the basic facts.
His explanations of schizophrenia, paranoia and dementia ( to name the most basic) are incorrect according to the current psychiatric terminology.
I get that he is trying to describe a different aspect, the unwell, not unwell by current standards, but yet unwell in their minds. I believe that we still can recognize these people through proper psychiatric review. Also, that most human beings are susceptible to psychiatric illnesses in face of varying degrees of stress (that will interact with a number of other risk factors to determine the threshold)
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
Yes there is no doubt that this is a brilliant story line. But I expected an incredible ending for this book! It seems like I set the bar too high! Maybe that’s why I’m so disappointed about this book. For me I assumed the way book ended before reading it and that made me loose my excitement before even finish reading it. Overall the book is good.
What so important about this book is that the author has searched a lot of information about matters to make this fiction seem much more realistic. That is something we need to appreciate because instead of just writing a made-up scenario, adding things that the reader can learn relate to life. Though the story was kind of a common plot, the author was talented enough to make it unique in his own. I saw a combination of genres in the book and I enjoyed it.
The book takes a whole new approach of narrating the story from a perspective of a schizophrenic person. The book has 3 sections; 1) narration from the so-called mentally healthy people, 2) narration from a mentally unstable person, and 3) narration from the point of law. The book brings in much awareness to psychological aspects that people face on a day-to-day basis. The question being, how do we justify or not justify such acts of humans?
I call it extraordinary because really it's complex. Some may call it's a book of pervertion but towards the end you'll realize it's all because of the father's nomenclature. I was a little bit confused to grasp those concepts and theories. However it's different and that makes the book astounding.