Book Description
Daniel O’Beeve’s parents crush his spirit, through their demand for total obedience, enforced by physical violence, both actual and in the form of threats. His mother hates him because of the pain he caused her during a long, difficult birth. He knows nothing of love or affection; he has no friends; he is bullied and frightened by his teachers and his school peers. He is miserably unhappy and isolated most of the time. But Daniel has a secret desire to have a better life – to find love, to find ‘his princess’, and to live in freedom and happiness. He studies judo with Japanese teachers, and he tries to make sense of love and sex and passion, through various experimental relationships. At the age of eighteen years, he revolts, against his work, his culture and his family, and he migrates to England, alone – a permanent outsider - with a grossly inadequate map of the social and emotional world…
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Obedience and Revolt: The mysterious roots of half a life
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