Shandor

By Wilma Edwards

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1582750785
• ISBN13: 9781582750781
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Black Forest Pr
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.3" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Shandor is Captivating

Captivating is the word I'd used to describe Shandor. Mrs. Edwards has created in her characters a sense of the life they must have really lived. She truly 'brings the characters to life' and I really enjoyed 'living' through them. I believe that Marshana is a person any and everyone can and will relate to as you read her story. Mrs. Edwards' depictions of the trauma of life as well as its saving graces are poignant and refreshing in a world of hard to read historical novels. Deft handling of people and places and artful descriptions of the same (from the 'glassy blue of the flower-strewn Danube River' to Eddie's swagger and moustache 'which Claudette had not given him permission to grow'), Mrs. Edwards vividly paints mental pictures that only a true wordsmith can do. I HIGHLY suggest reading 'Shandor.' It's beauty and depth will amaze, delight, and surprise you. A true joy! Lonnie Honeycutt Author: Death, Heaven and Back (A True Story of One Man's Death and Resurrection)

Poignant in its vivid characterization and setting

An involving historical novel by Wilma Efforts, Shandor is based upon the true events that beset a Belgian family relocating to Russia in 1900. Jealousy within the family, an attack from a Russian revolutionary, and a daughter's love for a man her father rejects spark a complex tangle of events that stretch beyond generations and up to a post-World War II Soviet occupation. Intricate and poignant in its vivid characterization and setting, Shandor documents Wilma Edwards as a gifted storyteller with a flair for incorporating cultural backgrounds into a multigenerational family saga.