Series Overview
A series of unusual novels and novellas interconnected by an old legend. Ranging from the 1500's to the present, through various locales including a starved and ravaged occupied territory in World War 11 . . . a witch-burning principality in the late Middle Ages . . . dueling vs. dancing in and beyond turbulent Renaissance Venice . . . Revolutionary and Napoleonic danger vs. cunning, from Paris through England, Italy, Corfu and points East . . . four fronts in the slaughter cauldron of the "War to End All Wars" . . . and a trans-Carpathian "bloodland" today still wasted and wracked by perpetual upheaval. All are centered over generations on what now remains scarcely more than a ghost town amid the fabled traces of a once thriving little Western enclave in Eastern Europe.
Dark with strangeness, depravity and terror, bright with adventure, romance and humor, related from various points of view with perception and empathy. The tragedies and triumphs that shape our own lives are tracked through striking and luminous sequences as ancestrally linked pairs similarly named encounter each other unwittingly through the centuries in various roles -- as man and woman, two men, two women, child and adult -- in an exotic variety of intriguing circumstances. A captivating interplay of stark realism and radiant imagination, rich with past allusions to key issues of our own time.
Dark with strangeness, depravity and terror, bright with adventure, romance and humor, related from various points of view with perception and empathy. The tragedies and triumphs that shape our own lives are tracked through striking and luminous sequences as ancestrally linked pairs similarly named encounter each other unwittingly through the centuries in various roles -- as man and woman, two men, two women, child and adult -- in an exotic variety of intriguing circumstances. A captivating interplay of stark realism and radiant imagination, rich with past allusions to key issues of our own time.
THE SEVEN TALES
Turning the Other cheek |
A "Christmas" Tale
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Apparition |
The Legend of the Moonbird
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Invitation to the dance |
The Legends of La Straniera
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Aunt Katrella |
The Tale of the Silver Casket
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The Theater of Life and Death |
The Truthseeker Tale
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The Night Horseman |
The Tale of the Two Aces
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Returning |
The Expatriate's Tale
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