Review on: Naoko by Keigo Higashino
Rating: 4.5/5
Recommended
Imagine hearing that your wife and daughter, who are your only family, are in an accident and upon rushing to the scene you find that your wife is dying and your daughter in a coma. It can lead a man to sink into an unimaginable state of depression, yet the main character of the story is not given the chance to grieve. A while after his wife’s death, his daughter who is in a comatic state wakes up only to find that somehow his wife is his daughter. His wife’s personality has been transferred into his daughter’s body, not knowing whether it’s temporary of permanent.
It’s more than just a dream when his “daughter” knows things that only his wife knows. It continues on for the next few years, with his wife living the life his daughter would have led. To top it all of, his wife develops a double personality with her having a completely different character in his presence, and outside of it.