Random Acts of Heroic Love |
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 | It has been almost a year since I finished reading this amazing book, and I can still vividly remember the power of emotion it contained.
From the very first page I was totally hooked. It tells two, interweaved tales . The first is set in 1992, and follows Leo Deakin, who wakes up in a South American hospital to discover that his girlfriend has died in the bus crash he survived. As he begins to remember what happened, he is plagued by the guilt that he was in some way to blame for her death.
The second story is set in 1917, and follows Mortis Daniecki, as he escapes from a POW camp and makes an epic journey across Europe, to return to the love of his life.
The story of Leo, is semi auto-biographical, as the author, Danny Scheinmann, also lost his girlfriend at a young age. Mortis's story is based on the real events of Danny Scheinmann's Grandfather's life, as explained in an epilogue to the book. I think that the fact the author has experienced a lot of the events described in the ... read more.
Written by Danny Scheinmann.
Published 01 August 2007.
Published by Doubleday.
rrp £17.99.
400 pages Hardcover.
ISBN: 0385612613
ISBN-13: 9780385612616 | |
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