No Salutes For Your Surrender - Softcover

Antanas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0968537308 ISBN 13: 9780968537305

Publisher: Jogaila Publications, 1999

Synopsis

When Vince Oskaunas arrives at one of Edmonton's more decrepit cafes for lunch with his father, Andrius, he has no idea that it is to be their very last. Andrius declares such by explaining how Lithuania has finally reclaimed its independence from the Soviet Union and how, therefore, the time has come for him to return home. This confounds Vince, of course, but does not surprise him. Indeed, because his father had never appeared settled or content in Canada, Vince has always suspected that the enigmatic old man would disappear one day.

Neither is Vince surprised when he receives, just twelve days later, a middle-night telephone call that delivers the catastrophic news of his father's admittance into a Lithuanian hospital. Andrius had been showing signs of illness before he climbed aboard the aeroplane and so Vince was quite sure that tragedy would call. What he did not expect was that the old man would survive it or that such would require him to immediately launch a rescue... or that this mission of mercy would lead him deep into love, to family, to the gangsters within eastern Europe's blacker markets, to the "Rutskoi Rebellion" in Moscow and to the gruesome truth about the "war crimes" which had brought about his father's exile to Canada after World War II...

About this title

From the Publisher

"No Salutes For Your Surrender" is a literary achievement so intricate that one might never guess it to be Antanas' first novel. He uses every trick in the book to simultaneously deliver three tales - one of love, one of passage and one of deliverance - in the poignant telling of an old man's final campaign to preserve his integrity. All of this, harmonized masterfully by a voice so earnest as to utterly enthrall the reader, hints that Antanas may prove to be a novelist of the sort who comes along only once in a century and we at Jogaila Publications are very proud to have him in our "house".

About the Author

Antanas was born (1966) and raised in Edmonton, Alberta. After serving in the Canadian Armed Forces, he travelled extensively throughout North America then ventured on to eastern Europe, at the time of Communism's collapse. Here it was that he fell into free-lance journalism. The political upheaval throughout the region provided an excellent opportunity for a career, but he sacrificed it to return home, in 1993, where he immediately began working full-time on his first novel. Such was published as "No Salutes For Your Surrender" in 1999.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jogaila Publications
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0968537308
• ISBN 13: 9780968537305
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 347