Description
<p>A mythical jewel of a story… A true story told on a beach in Yucatan, A Shadow tells Stephanie's story but it was also the story of the golden time. Its nostalgia sings like cicadas in the heat.</p><p>An American ‘Under Milkwood’, this distilled novel of the Sixties evokes the sounds, music and optimism on the free-wheelin streets and parks of Coconut Grove. You can hear Bob Dylan still strumming acoustic; smoke a joint with Fred Neil; and Everybody’s Talkin is carried on the wind.</p><p>Stephanie, a young hairdresser living in lodgings finds herself pregnant. Refused help from her hard Catholic mother in New York, unable to abort her baby, she accepts the kindness of Miriam, her Jewish landlady, whose own barren life spills into compassionate assistance for the daughter she never had.</p><p>The poignancy of its ending, its generosity and acceptance, echoes the bitter disappointment of those of us who hoped for so much more, but who remember its joy, and its promise, as though untarnished by time.</p>
Story Behind The Book
They say Bosnia is a cursed land. A country where bloodshed has tarnished the soil red with centuries of hatred and bitterness between her diverse and varied people. They also say if you place a Serb and a Croat in the same pot then it will be just a matter of time before the pot boils over. The dark days of the 1990's saw testament to this. The Division Bell merely scratches away at the surface of this tightly controlled appearance of normality.
Turn the clock back just fifty years and imagine a world where brother turns against brother, father against son, husband against wife. Welcome to Hell, welcome to Bosnia 1941.
