Bøger af Simon Shoykhet

They have been from different worlds . He came from glamorous NewYork at the point when all the best was ruined and no nore hopes or expectations . She came from little Caribbean fisherman island . Her life was ahead full of hopes. One passion they have in common - argentinian tango . Is it good enough for real love ? Mayby, If you find it on the road or under water. The other part of the book is about discoveries of misterious cities on this planet . Cites wich have no secrets, but have amazing stories.

Life itself decided his fate. His father's caravan was captured by robbers. He, a young Izrailit was sold into slavery in the Dak's mines. After escaping, saving his life, he becomes a Roman legionary. 20 years later he came up with the emperor army to the walls of Jerusalem . "The powerful walls of the main Jewish citadel met us with silence, even the tower watchers were not visible! This gave rise to the hope of an easy victory, of great prey. With each passing day roman confidance excited the imagination of the legend. I could see myself performing my duty as a legionnaire wherever the emperor plans stretched, but not at these walls. Stones of the citadel, looming dangerously over the already unfolded vast camp, seemed to have fused over the centuries under the sun and the wind from the desert into a single monolith ... I could not take my eyes off. . . "This is the place promised by God and who will come here not with good, in generations will be cursed ..." I heard it either from the walls, or from the fog of distant years, where I stood once near a person, whose face was hidden by a beard and a white-blue headdress - talis. . Only his eyes and lips reading the Tora prayer did not get lost from my memory. " He was my father.

It's stories of wars, happened in different parts of world and different times - Iraq 2008, Russia -1970, Israel 1982, Roman Empire 160.AD, on the fields of World War year 1914 . The fate of soldiers was always unpredictable and unfair quite often . And price was one - their life.

After 12 years in NYPD Jack Breston desided to have a quiet life, writing short story's for NY. magazine. That was working for him till the day his editor assigned him to write a story about the last year misterious dissapearance of young talented russian pianist from famous scandaloues "rock'n roll" Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan . Following the trace of dramatic death of innocent musician, retired ex cop finds himself in the middle of dangerous criminal knot in the famous aristocratic resort with Horse racing and illigal gambling.

That was not lost generation. They came back home from the war . Connected with youth and friendship the could not did not wanted to follow the lifes of their parents . They have different destin'sy, dreams and fantasy;Some went to misterious country- America some jumped to unknown, irrational russian revolution, some looking for new homeland in Palestine.

Simon Shoykhet was born in Odessa, warm, southern city on a Black See. In those times he was not engaged in literature and Art painting, he did not play the clarinet. He lives in New York for 38 years and never changed his profession in electrical consulting engineering . Life in amazing city New York, he says, always brings some extraordinary stories and characters for literature and Fine Art. His paintings were presented on many Art exhibitions in New York and Miami. His first book, Venetian Ghetto, was written and based on his short stories, published in American magazines . Since then a lot of his books were published . "Illustrations to Fine Art", "New York 1937", "Pianist from Chelsea Hotel", " Metaphor of fantasy ", "Citadel of Jerusalem", "Children of the War 1914". "Barnes & Noble" company distributed it in USA, Europe and Australia. His new book "Komparsita" is based on romantic and travel stories and is accompanied by illustrations from his paintings.