Category: Historical Fiction Publisher: The Reed Edwards Company
Type: Fiction
Pages: 248
Copyright: May 30, 2008
ISBN-13: 9780979534713
A novel rich in character and action packed-drama. Far east OF The Sun is both a powerful moral saga, as well as living proof of the power of unconditional love.
While most people know of the atrocities of World War II through films such as Holocaust, Sophie's Choice, and Schindler's List,Janina Chung simply knows. Her family endured life under Communist oppression in Russia, forced to Hitler's hellish concentration camps, and the sorrow of losing their homeland.
Excerpt
These were dangerous times. The rumbling of war in Germany was on everybody's mind. The Bolshevik's were rampant, forcing Communism on the people of Russia. Those who defied them were murdered or deported to Siberia - a death sentence in a land of harsh living conditions, a land of ice and vast forests, a land Far East Of The Sun.
Autumn 1940. Germany invades Britain. Newport is blitzed. Danny O’Shea’s house is bombed, his wife is killed. While taking his young son Adam to neutral Ireland, they witness an attack on a German convoy. The result is brutal.
Tralee, Ireland. September 1948.
An arrogant, and highly agitated, priest arrives home after 40 years.
Days later he's dead. Suicide? Or did his past catch up with him?
