The Second Catastrophe: A Novel about a Book and its Author - Tapa blanda

The Second Catastrophe sparked a great deal of controversy for the author...and fiction mirrored real life. The novel is about a Canadian professor who writes a book about Israel during the suicide bombings of the Second Intifada, and who is obsessed about Iran using nuclear weapons against Israel. First published in 2003, the story and its message is even more relevant today.

Howard Rotberg is a Canadian publisher and author of 3 books, “The Second Catastrophe: A Novel about a Book and its Author”, “Exploring Vancouverism: The Political Culture of Canada’s Lotus Land”, and now in its second (revised) edition, “TOLERism: The Ideology Revealed”. He has contributed over the years to many newspapers, magazines and websites, including Vancouver Sun, Pajamas Media, Frontpage Magazine, Freedom Press Canada Journal, and others. While Rotberg has written widely on socially-just urban planning, he also “walks the talk” through the re-development of heritage buildings converted into affordable rentals for the working poor, small artisans and cultural entities. Although a practicing lawyer for 20 years, Rotberg was never a stranger to controversy. He anonymously authored BoycottDaimlerChrysler.com, documenting Daimler’s wartime use of slave-labour and Chrysler’s failure to divulge this in its prospectus documents during its merger. Also a blogger, Rotberg authored “Second Generation Radical” in reference to his status as one of the Holocaust’s “second generation”—the children of Holocaust survivors—wherein he argued their central duty was to take a leadership role in ensuring a Holocaust never happens again, whether by Islamist terrorists, or Iranian nuclear bomb. As the founder of Mantua Books, a fast-growing, niche publishing house providing a platform for respected authors writing in the field of Rotberg’s current main interest—combating cultural and moral relativism—who are inherently shunned by left-liberal, mainstream publishers, he has published works by such authors as Jamie Glazov, Giulio Meotti, Gustavo Perednik, David Solway, Salim Mansur, Paul Merkley, Stephen Schecter, Pamela Peled, and others.