Glass Hearts - Softcover

Paul PAUL, Terri

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0897336364 ISBN 13: 9780897336369

Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers, 2012

Synopsis

This remarkable first novel centers around Serene, a young girl whose father has vanished from their small Hungarian village just before World War I, leaving his beleaguered Jewish family to fend for themselves in a time of danger and disruption. Serene is five-and-a-half years old when we meet her in the summer of 1913. For the next six years she seeks, through dreams and visions, to recover her father and to deal with the conflicting values and beliefs of her tightly knit family and the society which is unraveling around her. In the summer of 1916, the fighting spreads to her village, forcing the family to flee north to a small town near Budapest. When they return after the war, they find their village destroyed. A way of life has ended. In 1919, Serene must leave it behind, with its ghosts, charms, and dreams, and start anew in a new country. Based on the memories of her eighty-seven-year-old aunt and other surviving relatives, Terri Paul has recreated a world for us, a world shimmering with magic. This is a book which, once read, will never be forgotten.

 

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About the Author

Terri Paul has a Ph.D. in English from Ohio State University. Before becoming a writer, she was a social worker, college professor, and computer systems analyst, including a stint in NASA’s Shuttle program. She lives in Columbus, Ohio with her husband. They have a daughter and a grandson. In 1995, she received an Individual Artist’s Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council for Glass Hearts. She won the 2000 Friends of American Writers Award and the Ohioana Book Award in Fiction for the novel. She is also a recipient of the Columbus Literary Award in Fiction.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0897336364
• ISBN 13: 9780897336369
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 330