Publicado por Sunstone Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0865345961 ISBN 13: 9780865345966
Librería: Solomon's Mine Books, Howard, PA, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: Good. 2008 paperback. Shelf wear to covers including creases. Underlining on a few pages.
Publicado por Sunstone Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0865345961 ISBN 13: 9780865345966
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Product DescriptionIn this superbly researched WWII novel, award-winning writer, Tori Warner Shepard, captures the mood of remote Santa Fe, New Mexico as it waits out WWII for the return of her men held in Japanese prison camps. POW Melo Garcia has survived the Bataan Death March in the Philippines but his brother and father have not. Along with 1,500 other American prisoners, he is diseased, tortured, starved, and used as slave labor in a condemned coal mine outside of Nagasaki, Japan. Melo is the last living hope to continue his family's centuries old line for his war-widowed mother, Nicasia, who prays for his return alongside his sweetheart, LaBelle. They have received no reliable news since the surrender to the enemy in 1942. The novel is as much a story of the men's heroism as it is of their Hispanic community which after Pearl Harbor was a distant and a safe refuge from the war, sought out by the US Government as an internment camp for 2,000 Japanese Isseii barely a mile from the office of the top-secret Manhattan Project that was developing the atomic bomb to be dropped 20 miles from Melo's prison camp. Add to the mix FBI and counter-intelligence agents, Gringo fanatics opposed to Roosevelt, Melo's novia LaBelle and Phyllis, the redheaded bombshell, who challenges her. And Melo himself with his mother who embodies gracia, a word that does not translate. This gripping exposition of the Japanese atrocities is even-handed and the characters and personalities on the home front will haunt your memory.ReviewIn Now Silence, longtime Santa Fe resident Tori Warner Shepard depicts Santa Fe as it was while in the grips of World War II. The city's residents await the return of sons, brothers, and sweethearts, some of whom have perished in the Bataan Death March, others of whom survived only to slave away in a coal mine outside Nagasaki, Japan. As she shifts between describing scenes in Santa Fe and Japan, Shepard depicts the heroism of both the soldiers and the women they left behind. Shepard grew up in war-shattered Japan, where her stepfather oversaw Coca-Cola bottling plants. Moving to Santa Fe in the 1970s, she found that, despite its distance from the battlefield, the city had been shaped just as much by the war as had the places of her childhood. Although the reader can easily be swept away by the thoughtful character portrayals and the compelling narrative, it remains clear throughout the novel that Shepard has paid diligent attention to historical details. -- --New Mexico Magazine, January, 2008Santa Fe, New Mexico, World War II. This is the story of the women left behind waiting for the men in their lives to return home from the Japanese Prisoner of War Camps; men who will not be the same as when they left. There's Anissa, widow and local leader of the cult like I AM group with invoking St. Germain to stop the 'friendly fire' Her feud with her husband's former lover, Phyllis, only fuels her madness. Nicasia, her husband and son killed in the war, clings to the hope that her remaining son, Melo Garcia, will return safely from the POW camp where she had last heard he was still alive. Needy LaBelle, Melo's novia (fiancée) lives with her intended mother-in-law, never quite in touch with the reality of what lies ahead. Their stories are interspersed with the story of Melo and his friend Senio Lopez as they struggle to survive the Bataan Death March and the torture and hideous conditions of the Japanese camp where they are being held. These camp passages are dark and disturbing and altogether real. They make for compelling, if not pleasant, reading and are essential to the story. Will they live to return to Santa Fe? Will the women survive the wait? Author Tori Warner Shepard has given us a glimpse into life as it was and, we hope, will never be again in a sleepy little New Mexico town called Santa Fe. Shepard has taken the profane and the faithful, the serious and the amusing, a.
Publicado por Tori Warner Shepard, 2015
ISBN 10: 0692487476 ISBN 13: 9780692487471
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Publicado por Sunstone Press 10/1/2008, 2008
ISBN 10: 0865345961 ISBN 13: 9780865345966
Librería: BargainBookStores, Grand Rapids, MI, Estados Unidos de America
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Publicado por Sunstone Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0865345961 ISBN 13: 9780865345966
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Publicado por Tori Warner Shepard, 2015
ISBN 10: 0692487476 ISBN 13: 9780692487471
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Publicado por Sunstone Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0865345961 ISBN 13: 9780865345966
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Publicado por Tori Warner Shepard, 2015
ISBN 10: 0692487476 ISBN 13: 9780692487471
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Publicado por Tori Warner Shepard, 2015
ISBN 10: 0692487476 ISBN 13: 9780692487471
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Publicado por Sunstone Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0865345961 ISBN 13: 9780865345966
Librería: Revaluation Books, Exeter, Reino Unido
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Publicado por Tori Warner Shepard, 2015
ISBN 10: 0692487476 ISBN 13: 9780692487471
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Publicado por Sunstone Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0865345961 ISBN 13: 9780865345966
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Publicado por Sunstone Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0865345961 ISBN 13: 9780865345966
Librería: Ria Christie Collections, Uxbridge, Reino Unido
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Publicado por Sunstone Press Okt 2008, 2008
ISBN 10: 0865345961 ISBN 13: 9780865345966
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In this superbly researched WWII novel, award-winning writer, Tori Warner Shepard, captures the mood of remote Santa Fe, New Mexico as it waits out WWII for the return of her men held in Japanese prison camps. POW Melo Garcia has survived the Bataan Death March in the Philippines but his brother and father have not. Along with 1,500 other American prisoners, he is diseased, tortured, starved, and used as slave labor in a condemned coal mine outside of Nagasaki, Japan. Melo is the last living hope to continue his family's centuries old line for his war-widowed mother, Nicasia, who prays for his return alongside his sweetheart, LaBelle. They have received no reliable news since the surrender to the enemy in 1942. The novel is as much a story of the men's heroism as it is of their Hispanic community which after Pearl Harbor was a distant and a safe refuge from the war, sought out by the US Government as an internment camp for 2,000 Japanese Isseii barely a mile from the office of the top-secret Manhattan Project that was developing the atomic bomb to be dropped 20 miles from Melo's prison camp. Add to the mix FBI and counter-intelligence agents, Gringo fanatics opposed to Roosevelt, Melo's novia LaBelle and Phyllis, the redheaded bombshell, who challenges her. And Melo himself with his mother who embodies gracia, a word that does not translate. This gripping exposition of the Japanese atrocities is even-handed and the characters and personalities on the home front will haunt your memory. 316 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Sunstone Press 2008-10-01, 2008
ISBN 10: 0865345961 ISBN 13: 9780865345966
Librería: Chiron Media, Wallingford, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: New.
Publicado por Lulu Press Okt 2015, 2015
ISBN 10: 0692487476 ISBN 13: 9780692487471
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Winner of the 2016 IPPY Silver medal for West Mountain Best Regional Fiction, the beautifully researched story takes place in 1930 after the U.S. has usurped the very remote 1598 Royal Colony of La Villa de la Santa Fe de San Francisco d'Asis, founded by a small group of conquistadores and their Franciscan Padres, who came bringing both Christ's love to the heathen and a personal quest for riches. Not finding the wealth of either Mexico or Peru, this isolated colony stayed to eke out a subsistence living for three hundred years 1500 miles from Mexico City on vast lands granted as favors from King Philip II of Spain and his successor kings. The colony, side by side with the Pueblo Indians was in frequent danger from Comanches and other marauding tribes. To protect their wealth, what they saved was buried for safekeeping either in the very walls of their adobe homes, or in the ground itself. The colony continued in isolation until the opening of the Santa Fe Trail in 1821 when later Manifest Destiny over-ran and marginalized both the native Indian and Spanish Colonial cultures, imposing crippling taxes, new laws, a new language and compulsory education. Unscrupulous land speculators brought about break-up of the huge land grants, and homesteads, slowly weakened village life. The railroad brought further destruction. By 1930, Americans, artist-refugees, and tuberculars from the polluted industrial East came to Santa Fe as a refuge, essentially turning their backs on the inventive founding Spanish, in a rush to praise the naturalness of the Indian natives and their 'pure untouched' religion. Everything Indian became the fashion and the Hispanics were virtually disregarded, Faustino Garcia, a very capable young man is cash-poor, having been raised in a small wood-cutting village while his father, like many men in Santa Fe was forced to find work in another state. Our hero, an hidalgo, Don Faustino de Garcia, lacks the land and ancient encomiendas to support his inherited 16th century title; he is now a common villager. But, unlike his padres, he is literate. Still, in his noble heart, he is a son of the conquistadors, refusing to speak English or in any way to capitulate to the Americans and their pagan ways. His marriage vow in 1930, to him a sacred and moral obligation, is to restore the stripped dignity of the Spanish settlers, to recapture their legacy. The task before him is difficult, so he prays and his prayers are answered in a visitation from the Blessed Virgin herself telling him of a map to a cache of gold buried in a nearby hacienda, once owned by his ancestors. Not merely a family's stash of gold coins, Mexican silver and jewelry, the Virgin's visitation hints at more. A great treasure. For Faustino, this treasure promises the restoration of the Garcia Family's ancient lands and titles. He further wants the mountain returned to her people, and, if possible, the entire territory of New Mexico returned as the farthest stretch of Independent Mexico. Taking the map in hand, Nicasia, his wife, declares that her husband's sturdy soul is in mortal danger from the sin of greed, the handiwork of the Devil himself. 'Gold brings death,' she says. His two sons balk while his neighbors lay claim to the treasure as their own inheritance. Faustino must proceed in secret as the Virgin has instructed Faustino to befriend the heathen owners and to dig his treasure out from their walls. Preserving his legacy will be extremely difficult and the Americans are entrenched.
Publicado por Sunstone Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0865345961 ISBN 13: 9780865345966
Librería: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Alemania
Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - In this superbly researched WWII novel, award-winning writer, Tori Warner Shepard, captures the mood of remote Santa Fe, New Mexico as it waits out WWII for the return of her men held in Japanese prison camps. POW Melo Garcia has survived the Bataan Death March in the Philippines but his brother and father have not. Along with 1,500 other American prisoners, he is diseased, tortured, starved, and used as slave labor in a condemned coal mine outside of Nagasaki, Japan. Melo is the last living hope to continue his family's centuries old line for his war-widowed mother, Nicasia, who prays for his return alongside his sweetheart, LaBelle. They have received no reliable news since the surrender to the enemy in 1942. The novel is as much a story of the men's heroism as it is of their Hispanic community which after Pearl Harbor was a distant and a safe refuge from the war, sought out by the US Government as an internment camp for 2,000 Japanese Isseii barely a mile from the office of the top-secret Manhattan Project that was developing the atomic bomb to be dropped 20 miles from Melo's prison camp. Add to the mix FBI and counter-intelligence agents, Gringo fanatics opposed to Roosevelt, Melo's novia LaBelle and Phyllis, the redheaded bombshell, who challenges her. And Melo himself with his mother who embodies gracia, a word that does not translate. This gripping exposition of the Japanese atrocities is even-handed and the characters and personalities on the home front will haunt your memory.
Publicado por AL LAVALLIS ENTERPRISES LLC, 2015
ISBN 10: 0692487476 ISBN 13: 9780692487471
Librería: moluna, Greven, Alemania
Condición: New. Über den AutorTori Warner Shepard was raised in post-war Japan and schooled there, the Philippines, the States and in Switzerland. Having lived abroad in Asia, Europe and South America, she is now well settled in Santa Fe, researchi.
Publicado por Sunstone Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0865345961 ISBN 13: 9780865345966
Librería: moluna, Greven, Alemania
Condición: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Über den AutorrnrnTori Warner Shepard grew up in post-war Japan and since moving to Santa Fe over thirty-five years ago has been absorbed by the story of the POWs, their welcome home, and the effects of the war on a tight isolated community.