Kim Ekemar

Tales of War (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Seven stories about war and its consequencies . . .

The Dowry; Afghanistan, 1980
War makes a cynical suitor. The future of a young man of marriageable age as seen from his pragmatic gunpoint view. An incident that never made the news, as recalled by a war correspondent.

The lasting logic of a chance challenge; The Chinese-Russian border, the 1890s
Death for stakes to prove a point: a story about opposite approaches to a deadly game that can be played two ways.

The Realm of the Black Eagle; Nature; today
The true ruler of this mountainous region is a black eagle, until one day humans decide to invade his corner of the world. The eagle has no choice but to turn into a stealthy guerrilla warrior in his struggle to recover his kingdom.

The Paper War; Stockholm, 1978 1992
The Swedes have two main topics the weather and their oppressive tax system. Often they find these subjects more important even than death. The question is: what can be done about them?

Two Lives and the Camp of Death; Poland, 1943
Gerber, the merciless commander of a World War II concentration camp, doesn't see himself as part of a greater human community, but as a skilled administrator looking for solutions. In the village nearby a homely woman and her children welcome their husband and father as he arrives from work. In the warm atmosphere of their close-knit relationships they all avoid thinking about the ongoing war and the incineration of its victims in the camp next door. It is a dark story about shutting out a brutal reality, or thriving on it.

Between a Rock and a Hard Place; Paris/London, 1997
The killing game is not for amateurs. Killing for a living, the hired assassin reasons, must be better than living to be dead. Murder Inc. makes the step into the Internet age. In this cat-and-mouse narrative the challenge is as taxing for the cold-blooded killer as it is for the target of his contract.

Carved Out for an Infinite Game ;Cathay, Persia, Florence and Buenos Aires;
475 BC AD 1939
The art of warfare when it has taken on the stylised form of chess. The methods used to wage war may have become more sophisticated over the millennia, but the desire to conquer remains unchanged. Four historic flashbacks in which a chessboard plays the central role.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kim Ekemar
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780463271339
• Artikelnr.: 70457367

Autorenporträt

I've been fortunate with opportunities to travel the world, counting Mexico, France, Sweden and Spain as my home at one time or other. In the past, a good part of my life was dedicated to business ventures: an art gallery, an advertising agency and commodity trading, among others.

My travels have taken me to faraway places and amazing situations. I arrived in Mongolia just as the revolution for independence from the USSR started. I have been taken up the Sepik river by crocodile hunters in Papua Guinea. I've climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Kenya, gone horseback riding to where the Río Magdalena in Colombia begins, crossed the Australian desert, hiked the Inka trail the wrong direction in Peru, and much more. However, the experience with the most impact that I've lived through was to be arbitrarily jailed in a centre for torture in Paraguay during the Stroessner dictatorship, under the absurd accusation of being a terrorist. (More about this in my illustrated non-fiction book in Spanish about the dictator, "El Reino del Terror".)

During the past two decades, I've been focused on artistic expressions painting, photography, design and architecture, but mainly on writing. The sources for the things I'm interested in writing about are the passions of people; places and customs that I've experienced around the world; and stories or situations from life that intrigue me.