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The Restaurant Reviewer, a love story

Originally published on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, The Restaurant Reviewer, a novel, tells a story of lovers, loss, grieving, and healing, and is dedicated to the People of New York City.

Set in lower Manhattan in the wake of 9/11, The Restaurant Reviewer focuses on an old family-owned restaurant, Booths, whose devoted chef and proprietor, Matthias Constantine, has collapsed from a stroke. The novel addresses the question facing his family and friends of whether, and how, his restaurant can survive. The answers explore connections...

Johannes träumt vom Fliegen - auf einem Kettenkarussell. Durch die Luft sausen und mal nicht behindert sein. Das wäre so schön. Und wunderbar. Aber auch gefährlich. Er darf nicht fallen und nicht stürzen, sein Rücken ist versteift. Johannes, das geht leider nicht, sagt sein großer Bruder. Aber eigentlich will er ihm auch seinen Wunsch erfüllen. Nur wie? Gemeinsam machen sich die beiden auf die Suche. Und entdecken ein Fahrrad, auf dem sie nebeneinander sitzen und sich im Kreis drehen können. 
So beginnt er, der Sommer ihres Lebens.

Ein Buch über das, was möglich ist,...

The story is told by the son, James, a sculptor of small objets d'art, miniature versions of the armor his father has spent a lifetime collecting. The father's ambiguities become the son's obsession and he finds himself digging deeper and deeper into his father's past in an effort to understand the man before he was a father. He discovers a student filled with romantic dreams and high hopes, a latent homosexual who, after a bizarre episode of dashed expectations rejects his nature and builds a fortress...

One woman fought alongside them.

Abandoned at birth on the slopes of Mount Pelion, Atalanta is determined to prove her worth to the father who cast her aside. Having taught herself to hunt and fight, and disguised as a man, she wins a place on the greatest voyage of that heroic age: with Jason and his band of Argonauts in search of the legendary Golden Fleece.

And it is here, in the company of...