{"product_id":"fragments-paperback-5","title":"Fragments - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGreg Dinner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"I think we both are at the border,\" she says... \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e...\"And we both have to cross over.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA well-known American war photographer of thirty years struggling with PTSD, and an English forensic archaeologist digging at a Polish concentration camp, haunted by personal ghosts and the ghosts of the Holocaust, seek understanding in loss, and find meaning in one another.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn an 1890s shtetl in the Russian Pale of Settlement a young man dreams that music from his violin might warm the heart of the daughter of a tavern, only to encounter life's tragedy, and life's journey...\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn 1942 a patient at the Krakow Babinski Mental Home remembers the boy who loved her and the old man who spoke kindnesses. She alone survives by embracing memory and finding hope. And in 1943 a young man traveling the secret Polish frozen paths with his father and brother is determined to save a young woman who has escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto, determined to hold onto her name. To remember her story...\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTying these disparate generations is a broken violin called Memory-real and imagined fragments of experience that bring hope and salvation in word, in images, in music. What begins in the Russian Pale of Settlement in the 1890s takes the reader on a journey through the frozen fields of Poland in 1942, and leads to the Polish \/ Ukraine border in March, 2022 as refugees stream over, seeking refuge from a war they neither sought, nor wanted.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReferencing characters and some true events both from the sister novel A Requiem For Hania as well as stories lived today, Fragments continues a journey of meaning, a search for self, a fundamental exploration of human experience through that which is lost, and that which is found. Finally, in this love story of two people finding one another through conflict and trauma, Fragments is a story of hope and redemption.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat remains is the photograph. The story without words, where words are not needed.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat remains is that point of time, the spot of time past, present, and in many ways future. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e What remains is memory. Memory of what we are, of our humanity, of our failings, of our weaknesses, of our hopes, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eof our dreams, of our frailty, of us. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e We are remembered, us. We are the photograph. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 322\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 06, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47264331071737,"sku":"9781737774327","price":19.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/or2fUJuY4Q9781737774327.webp?v=1768828424","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/fragments-paperback-5","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}