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Norman was once a child prodigy, a parent's favorite and a brilliant lawyer... at forty-one, a drug addict, almost never leaving his bedroom, full of paranoia and hallucinations. The decision to send to a psychiatric hospital is a painful step for the father and sister, but thoughts and feelings that have been hidden for many decades, from each other and from themselves, break through.
The novel "The Chosen One" brought Bernice Rubens the Booker Prize in 1970, but half a century later it has not lost its sharpness. Rubens ruthlessly and with deep sympathy explores the relationship of people closely connected by tradition, aspirations, feelings of guilt and duty, love and hatred. This tangle of contradictory characters and destinies, skillfully unwound by the author, is a family firmly soldered by mutual alienation and mutual dependence.