FRAGMENTS - Couverture souple

Dinner, Greg

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1737774321 ISBN 13 : 9781737774327

Editeur : Ogham & Dabar Books, 2025

Synopsis

In connected stories that journey from the Russian Pale of Settlement in the 1890s to the frozen fields of Poland in WWII, from Bosnia to Jerusalem to Krakow in present days, and finally to the Ukraine border in 2022 as exhausted refugees seek shelter from the storm of a war neither sought nor wanted, FRAGMENTS is a novel of hope and redemption...

In an 1890s shtetl, in the Russian Pale of Settlement, a young man dreams that music from his violin might warm the heart of a tavern owner's daughter, only to encounter life's tragedy, and life's journey.

In 1942 a patient at the Krakow Babinski Mental Home remembers the boy who loved her, and old man who spoke kindnesses to her before the darkness of the war finally descended upon them. She alone survives by embracing memory and finding hope.

In 1943 a young man traveling the secret frozen paths with his father and brother is determined to save a young woman escaping from the Warsaw Ghetto, she who is determined to hold onto her name. To remember her story.

And in the book's central story, in the present day, a well-known American war photographer of thirty years, struggling with PTSD, and an English forensic archaeologist digging at the foundations of a former Polish concentration camp, haunted by personal ghosts and the ghosts of the Holocaust, seek understanding in loss, find meaning in one another

Tying these disparate generations is a broken violin called 'Memory'--real and imagined fragments of experience that bring hope and salvation in word, in images, in music: from the past to the present to our joined future.

Referencing characters and some true events both from the sister novel A REQUIEM FOR HANIA as well as stories lived today, FRAGMENTS continues a journey of meaning, a search for self, a fundamental exploration of human experience through that which is lost, and that which is found.

...What remains is the photograph. The story without words, where
words are not needed.
What remains is that point of time, the spots of time past, present
and in many ways future.
What remains is memory. Memory of what we are, of our humanity,
of our failings, of our weaknesses, of our hopes, of our dreams,
of our frailty, of us.
We are remembered. We are the photograph.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Author and screenwriter Greg Dinner published A REQUIEM FOR HANIA, inspired by a true story of the Warsaw Ghetto and a young Polish woman's search for identity in Poland decades later, in 2022. His other novels include A MURMURATION OF STARLINGS (2016) and NARCISSUS IN UTERO (2019), both part of his 'Shadow Wolf Chronicles' series inspired by the 'Shadow Wolf' television series he developed in Los Angeles. In 2024 he published his nonfiction WHISPERS OF GHOSTS: DAYS AND NIGHTS UKRAINE about time spent in Ukraine in 2024.Greg Dinner began a long career as a screenwriter and film studio executive in 1981, working at United Artists, MGM, Columbia and Tri Star pictures in Los Angeles, before moving to London in 1984. In 1992 he became a full time produced screenwriter. From 1996-99 he was appointed Head of Drama Development at RTE, Dublin, the Irish State Broadcaster from 1996-99. As a screenwriter in both film and television in the UK, US and Germany, most of his work focused primarily on factually backdropped drama set in conflict zones with an interest in politics, human rights and history. He has worked in the US, UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Norway, India, Italy and Brazil, as well as an executive and a visiting tutor. He is a member of PEN Ireland, WGA, WGGB, BAFTA and a professional member of The Writer's Centre, Ireland. He is a professional advisor to the European Commission's CREATIVE MEDIA for media development and production finance. A dual Irish and US citizen, Greg Dinner now lives in the West of Ireland. FRAGMENTS, a sister-novel to 'A Requiem For Hania', is his fourth novel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ogham & Dabar Books
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1737774321
• ISBN 13: 9781737774327
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible