The Old King in His Exile
“A beautiful, entirely unsentimental book describing his father’s dementia…. The Old King in His Exile is a superbly written book.” —Denis ScheckArno Geiger’s father was never an easy man to know. Born into a farming family in Austria and conscripted into World War Two as a seventeen-year-old...
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“A beautiful, entirely unsentimental book describing his father’s dementia…. The Old King in His Exile is a superbly written book.” —Denis ScheckArno Geiger’s father was never an easy man to know. Born into a farming family in Austria and conscripted into World War Two as a seventeen-year-old “schoolboy soldier,” he was later reticent about the past. When he started to cha
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ISBN:
9781632061065
Publisher: Restless Books
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
https://msarki.tumblr.com/post/154458464683/the-old-king-in-his-exile-by-arno-geiger-stefanWritten in a relaxed and informal manner, Arno Geiger manages to soberly show the ravages on family and loved ones due to dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Though stricken by such a terrible long and drawn-ou...