indeed, as this book is disturbing, how to feel empathy for "heroine" of this novel. One would rather want to shake it to take in hand, for it ceases to be the plaything of others. By cons how not to feel compassion for this private child from his mother in such horrible circumstances, and how not to say that his wife's fate is already written in advance and that nothing could save her and yet ... The author succeeds in his immense talent to alternate poetry and vulgarity, violence and crudity A book that does not come out unscathed but it should be a must read