Conditions
by Christoph Fischer
About the book:
Conditions
When Charles and Tony's
mother dies the estranged brothers must struggle to pick up the pieces,
particularly so given that one of them is mentally challenged and the other
bitter about his place within the family.
The conflict is drawn out over materialistic issues, but there are other underlying problems which go to the heart of what it means to be part of a family which, in one way or another. has cast one aside.
Prejudice, misconceptions and the human condition in all forms feature in this contemporary drama revolving around a group of people who attend the subsequent funeral at the British South Coast.
Meet flamboyant gardener Charles, loner Simon, selfless psychic Elaine, narcissistic body-builder Edgar, Martha and her version of unconditional love and many others as they try to deal with the event and its aftermath.
The conflict is drawn out over materialistic issues, but there are other underlying problems which go to the heart of what it means to be part of a family which, in one way or another. has cast one aside.
Prejudice, misconceptions and the human condition in all forms feature in this contemporary drama revolving around a group of people who attend the subsequent funeral at the British South Coast.
Meet flamboyant gardener Charles, loner Simon, selfless psychic Elaine, narcissistic body-builder Edgar, Martha and her version of unconditional love and many others as they try to deal with the event and its aftermath.
Now I want to have my
say in this…..
Yes, I have read the
book. I did my share of editing on the
book as well and here is why I adore the book.
It is real, raw and
emotional. It is about people like you
and me. It is about family that goes out
of their way to hurt one another all due to real and or perceived past
transgressions. In total this book is
about real life, about the condition of being human warts and all.
So pick up your copy
today. Trust me, you have to read this.
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Other books by this author:
The
Luck of the Weissensteiners(Three Nations Trilogy Book 1)
In the sleepy town of Bratislava in 1933 a romantic
girl falls for a bookseller from Berlin. Greta Weissensteiner, daughter of a
Jewish weaver, slowly settles in with the Winkelmeier clan just as the
developments in Germany start to make waves in Europe and re-draws the visible
and invisible borders. The political climate in the multifaceted cultural
jigsaw puzzle of disintegrating Czechoslovakia becomes more complex and affects
relations between the couple and the families. The story follows them through
the war with its predictable and also its unexpected turns and events and the
equally hard times after.
But this is no ordinary romance; in fact it is not a romance at all, but a powerful, often sad, Holocaust story. What makes The Luck of the Weissensteiners so extraordinary is the chance to consider the many different people who were never in concentration camps, never in the military, yet who nonetheless had their own indelible Holocaust experiences. This is a wide-ranging, historically accurate exploration of the connections between social location, personal integrity and, as the title says, luck.
But this is no ordinary romance; in fact it is not a romance at all, but a powerful, often sad, Holocaust story. What makes The Luck of the Weissensteiners so extraordinary is the chance to consider the many different people who were never in concentration camps, never in the military, yet who nonetheless had their own indelible Holocaust experiences. This is a wide-ranging, historically accurate exploration of the connections between social location, personal integrity and, as the title says, luck.
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Sebastian
(Three Nations Trilogy Book 2)
Sebastian is the story
of a young man who has his leg amputated before World War I. When his father is
drafted to the war it falls on to him to run the family grocery store in
Vienna, to grow into his responsibilities, bear loss and uncertainty and
hopefully find love.
Sebastian Schreiber, his extended family, their friends and the store employees experience the ‘golden days’ of pre-war Vienna and the timed of the war and the end of the Monarchy while trying to make a living and to preserve what they hold dear.
Fischer convincingly describes life in Vienna during the war, how it affected the people in an otherwise safe and prosperous location, the beginning of the end for the Monarchy, the arrival of modern thoughts and trends, the Viennese class system and the end of an era.
As in the first part of the trilogy, “The Luck of The Weissensteiners” we are confronted again with themes of identity, Nationality and borders. The step back in time made from Book 1 and the change of location from Slovakia to Austria enables the reader to see the parallels and the differences deliberately out of the sequential order. This helps to see one not as the consequence of the other, but to experience them as the momentary reality as it must have felt for the people at the time.
Sebastian Schreiber, his extended family, their friends and the store employees experience the ‘golden days’ of pre-war Vienna and the timed of the war and the end of the Monarchy while trying to make a living and to preserve what they hold dear.
Fischer convincingly describes life in Vienna during the war, how it affected the people in an otherwise safe and prosperous location, the beginning of the end for the Monarchy, the arrival of modern thoughts and trends, the Viennese class system and the end of an era.
As in the first part of the trilogy, “The Luck of The Weissensteiners” we are confronted again with themes of identity, Nationality and borders. The step back in time made from Book 1 and the change of location from Slovakia to Austria enables the reader to see the parallels and the differences deliberately out of the sequential order. This helps to see one not as the consequence of the other, but to experience them as the momentary reality as it must have felt for the people at the time.
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The
Black Eagle Inn (Three Nations Trilogy Book 3)
The Black Eagle Inn is an old established Restaurant
and Farm business in the sleepy Bavarian countryside outside of
Heimkirchen. Childless Anna Hinterberger
has fought hard to make it her own and keep it running through WWII. Religion
and rivalry divide her family as one of her nephews, Markus has got her heart
and another nephew, Lukas got her ear. Her husband Herbert is still missing and
for the wider family life in post-war Germany also has some unexpected
challenges in store.
Once again Fischer tells a family saga with war in the
far background and weaves the political and religious into the personal. Being
the third in the Three Nations Trilogy this book offers another perspective on
war, its impact on people and the themes of nations and identity.
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Time
To Let Go:
Time to Let Go is a
contemporary family drama set in Britain.
Following a traumatic incident at work Stewardess Hanna Korhonen decides to take time off work and leaves her home in London to spend quality time with her elderly parents in rural England. There she finds that neither can she run away from her problems, nor does her family provide the easy getaway place that she has hoped for. Her mother suffers from Alzheimer’s disease and, while being confronted with the consequences of her issues at work, she and her entire family are forced to reassess their lives.
The book takes a close look at family dynamics and at human nature in a time of a crisis. Their challenges, individual and shared, take the Korhonens on a journey of self-discovery and redemption.
Following a traumatic incident at work Stewardess Hanna Korhonen decides to take time off work and leaves her home in London to spend quality time with her elderly parents in rural England. There she finds that neither can she run away from her problems, nor does her family provide the easy getaway place that she has hoped for. Her mother suffers from Alzheimer’s disease and, while being confronted with the consequences of her issues at work, she and her entire family are forced to reassess their lives.
The book takes a close look at family dynamics and at human nature in a time of a crisis. Their challenges, individual and shared, take the Korhonens on a journey of self-discovery and redemption.
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About the author:
Short
Biography:
Christoph Fischer was born in Germany, near the
Austrian border, as the son of a Sudeten-German father and a Bavarian mother.
Not a full local in the eyes and ears of his peers he developed an ambiguous
sense of belonging and home in Bavaria. He moved to Hamburg in pursuit of his
studies and to lead a life of literary indulgence. After a few years he moved
on to the UK where he now lives in a small hamlet, not far from Bath. He and his partner have three Labradoodles to
complete their family.
Christoph worked for the British Film Institute, in
Libraries, Museums and for an airline. ‘The Luck of The Weissensteiners’ was
published in November 2012; 'Sebastian' in May 2013 and The Black Eagle Inn in
October 2013. In May 2014 he published his first contemporary novel "Time
To Let Go" in May.He has written several other novels which are in the
later stages of editing and finalisation.
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