J’y pense et puis j’oublie

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Author:

Annie-Claude Nakau

Date:

April 2017

Author:

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I THINK AND THEN FORGET

Rights Holder: Slatkine et Cie.
Original Language: French

A memoir of living with Alzheimer’s disease written from the inside...

In her beautiful written, literary memoir, Anne-Claude Nakau intimately shares the crumbling of her world over nearly two decades and the distress felt by those close to a patient with Alzheimer’s, more specifically, an atypical variant of the disease called Benson’s Syndrome.

This is the story of the life of a woman for whom reading, writing, even driving, have become great obstacles. Even communicating with her Japanese husband becomes a challenge because English is their common language, a language that is slipping from her grasp. Anne-Claude may have troubling visions but she clearly sees herself little by little being excluded from society because of a disease that researchers struggle to catch up with.

Slatkine & Cie has taken the opportunity to give voice to an author who, through her own experience with this disease and subsequent introspection, provides a never-before seen, inside look at Alzheimer’s.

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