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Unhuman
Hope dies last, but suffering from schizophrenia for a great part of his life has pushed Arthur Palke on the edge of despair. Medicine doesn’t work anymore, his hallucinations are more terrifying than ever, and the voice in his head won’t stay quiet. With no prospect of improvement, there doesn’t seem to be a reason to hold on to life.
It is a trivial incident that enlightens him and allows him to glimpse the truth for the first time: the voice in his head is not a product of an illness; it belongs to someone else. Someone real.
Grasping the idea that there’s something out there trying to kill him from inside his own mind by means he can't fathom, Arthur starts a quest to track the root of such evil, which eventually will lead him into finding a horror beyond his imagination.
It is a trivial incident that enlightens him and allows him to glimpse the truth for the first time: the voice in his head is not a product of an illness; it belongs to someone else. Someone real.
Grasping the idea that there’s something out there trying to kill him from inside his own mind by means he can't fathom, Arthur starts a quest to track the root of such evil, which eventually will lead him into finding a horror beyond his imagination.
508 pages, Paperback
First published January 27, 2019
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February 2, 2021
Arthur Palke isn't like other people. He hears voices and experiences horrifying visions, and basically feels an ordinary existence is beyond him. But after one of Arthur's visions imparts a shocking secret, he realizes there's more to his suffering than he first thought. Someone is trying to kill him, and to find out why Arthur must return to his hometown and delve deeper into his past, and his own soul, than he ever thought possible.
UNHUMAN is a thoughtful and intricately plotted study of a soul in torment as he struggles for deliverance. The plot is complex and explores many questions pertaining to the human condition through the eyes of our protagonist, particularly what it means to be alive and the way our own mind can deceive us. Arthur is a very angry young man, made bitter by not only his affliction but by repeated betrayals from those he loves. And yet he remains likable and sympathetic, and the reader is drawn irresistibly into Arthur's battle for salvation. Though a very long book, UNHUMAN flows remarkably quickly thanks to the author's clean, energetic prose and the naturally engrossing nature of the story. And it is a horror story, one in which there proves to be far more to Arthur's problems than he ever knew.
UNHUMAN is an excellent novel of psychological terror. Can Arthur discover the nature of the voices in his head? And what will be the price if he does? Will he, at long last, learn what it makes to be truly human? I believe you'll enjoy finding out.
UNHUMAN is a thoughtful and intricately plotted study of a soul in torment as he struggles for deliverance. The plot is complex and explores many questions pertaining to the human condition through the eyes of our protagonist, particularly what it means to be alive and the way our own mind can deceive us. Arthur is a very angry young man, made bitter by not only his affliction but by repeated betrayals from those he loves. And yet he remains likable and sympathetic, and the reader is drawn irresistibly into Arthur's battle for salvation. Though a very long book, UNHUMAN flows remarkably quickly thanks to the author's clean, energetic prose and the naturally engrossing nature of the story. And it is a horror story, one in which there proves to be far more to Arthur's problems than he ever knew.
UNHUMAN is an excellent novel of psychological terror. Can Arthur discover the nature of the voices in his head? And what will be the price if he does? Will he, at long last, learn what it makes to be truly human? I believe you'll enjoy finding out.
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