David Jaffin is the world's busiest poet. As the title suggests, this volume was written in the days running up to the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, and engages with the author's life, meditations, thoughts about art, literature, friends and God during the run-up to day when troops crossed the border.
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Höhe: 205 mm
Breite: 135 mm
Dicke: 17 mm
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978-1-84861-872-5 (9781848618725)
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Dr. David Jaffin was born to a Jewish family in New York and studied History, Art History and Psychology at New York University, where he was awarded a PhD at the age of 24 he went to Europe and did the unthinkable: a mere 16 years after Auschwitz he married a German woman, became a Christian, and embarked on the study of theology. After graduating from Tubingen University, he became a Pastor in the Evangelilcal (i.e. Lutheran) Church, and then served as a minister for 20 years in Wurttemberg. After this he was granted freelance status in order to continue with his writing. He had already made himself a considerable reputation as a writer of sermons and religious texts, and he is now the author of dozens of prose books in German, including stories for children, as well as a large corpus of poetry in English.
