![]() "But perhaps this book will do something to help depressives find more sympathy and understanding." It is a tribute to Enke and the author that Reng succeeds so judiciously. "It would be too much to hope that the illness will be understood all of a sudden," writes Reng. He builds a portrait of someone who felt trapped and provides a painful and poignant analysis of the psychological damage inflicted by the depression Enke left untreated for fear of exposing himself as weak. On November 10, 2009, the German national goalkeeper, Robert Enke, stepped in front of a passing train. Reng does not attempt to gloss a grim and troubling story with melodrama and simply chronicles Enke's life and the effects his illness had on his family and career. Here, award-winning writer Ronald Reng pieces together the puzzle of his lost friends life. ![]() It should be on every British football fans reading list. At its heart, Enkes tragedy is a universal story of a man struggling against his demons. ![]() The translator, Shaun Whiteside, deserves credit for treating the understated spirit of the original German text so respectfully and with such skill. Award-winning writer Ronald Reng pieces together the puzzle of his friends life, shedding valuable light on the crushing pressures endured by professional sportsmen and on life at the top clubs. Reng uses the material with great sensitivity to offer a rare insight into the torments of depression but never lapses into sentimentality, employing a spare prose style to convey the facts he discovers about a friend who dedicated such ultimately debilitating concern to keeping them concealed. ![]()
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