Title: 奇想、天慟Author: 岛田荘司
Publisher: 皇冠文化
While catagorised as a typical "mystery" story, the underlining permise is about human nature.
What professes a person to silently endured a decades of tortous existence? What evil wrong doings in the history of mankind can ever be justified. The sins of the fathers - can they ever be atoned? In what fairy tales have we cloaked the truth?
As the prose reaches the climax, so does the emotional turmoil when we come to realise that sometimes a criminal act is not simply crime but disguises some greater human failings.
