OTHERS - Softcover

Sanchez, Javier Garcia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1903517125 ISBN 13: 9781903517123

Publisher: Dedalus Limited, 2015

Synopsis

Two journalists decide to visit an ex-police officer in a mental hospital for attempting to kill his wife and son, and uncover a disturbing secret involving optical illusions and reality.

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R. V., once a respected police officer dedicated to tracking down missing persons, languishes in catatonia after trying to murder his wife and son. Ensconced for 15 years in a remote mental hospital, he will murmur only the few words "They are watching us." After reading the erstwhile detective's obsessive, incomprehensible diary, which consists of sentence fragments about optical illusions and the science of perception, two journalists drive to the hospital to investigate. As they uneasily watch R. V., Garcia Sanchez has the unmoving man's memories replay the events that led him to attempt murder. Did he gradually descend into madness or discover a peripheral reality that terrified him into permanent silence? Layers of atmospheric detail--a dying nun who whispers of the visible and the invisible, a little girl who reports a new friend her mother cannot see, tiny cuts and cracks in windows and mirrors that suggest another world pressing against our own--enable this intriguing book about the psychological nature of fear to achieve its disturbing effect. Roberta Johnson
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About this edition

• Publisher: Dedalus Limited
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1903517125
• ISBN 13: 9781903517123
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 100