Chosen

Norman once in the past is a child prodigy, a parental favorite and a brilliant lawyer ... In forty-one-an addict, almost not leaving the bedroom, all in the power of paranoia and hallucinations. The decision to send to a psychiatric hospital is a painful step for the father and sisters, but the thoughts and feelings break through, which hid everything for many decades - from each other and themselves.
The novel “Elected” brought Bernis Rubens the Buker prize in 1970, but even half a century later he did not lose his sharpness. Rubens ruthlessly and with deep sympathy explores the relations of people closely connected by traditions, aspirations, feelings of guilt and duty, love and hatred. This tangle of conflicting characters and destinies, firmly soldered by mutual alienation and mutual dependence