A Romance in Augsburg: a Romance Novel

You are transported back to a time and place that is recognizable, l970, West Germany, an American GI, a Jewish-German girl with an illness are about to meet. It is a romance story that will be read and reread continuesously. The author says, "It is memories fashioned with fiction about a real time, place:-it was all I had to work with " adding, " it was me working uphill all the time with this story never again." Yet the genius in this story is the author's ability to express what is on his mind. In the beginning of the story life seems tranquil, uneventful at first, yet the romance about to take place will be strikingly dramatic for the couple, with the maneuvering of time this story has the ingredients of being the most beautiful representation of life and death and how two people impose their will upon it and grab the moment. Three elements seem to linger like a canopy within the shadows of the story, an illness, Vietnam, and the relationship. The characters Chick Evens and Chris Trawets in their phraseology resides nothing imitative; the dialogue is expressive. The pedigree between both individuals is quite different; yet heartwarming, still heartbreaking.