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The Painted Devil

Written by Arjun Raina

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133 pages, about 3 hours of reading

Biography & Autobiography

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This is a unique and enlightened insight into mental illness. This book has taken the author over two decades to write. A must-read for all interested in not just the working of the human brain but also its breakdown. This is an exciting new work that uses the latest ideas of the functioning of the human brain to tell a dark but true story of its dysfunction. This is his first novel,his first work of fiction.

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