Wondering and Wandering

Wondering and Wandering is a family saga. The events take place on three continents in the time span of one hundred years. The first book of the trilogy portrays the Europeans dealing with the First and Second World Wars, Fascism and Communism. The second book depicts South Africa between 1969 and 1992 and the third takes the reader to USA.Book one describes Ari growing up in an eastern European country. When she begins looking beyond her innocent concept of the world, she encounters...
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Wondering and Wandering is a family saga. The events take place on three continents in the time span of one hundred years. The first book of the trilogy portrays the Europeans dealing with the First and Second World Wars, Fascism and Communism. The second book depicts South Africa between 1969 and 1992 and the third takes the reader to USA.Book one describes Ari growing up in an eastern European country. When she begins looking beyond her innocent concept of the world, she encounters many strange living, and deceased characters and family members, shrouded in a web of mystery.One of them is Ari's heroic grandfather, a POW, who survived capture, and a long train ride to Siberia. The hardships and the misery of the First World War, his ingenuity and dexterity and the fact that he walked 12 hundred miles back to his homeland, fills Ari with wonder and admiration. Her father, a privileged child, then an orphan who encounters Gestapo and the liberation from the German occupation, is another. The mysterious Diploma signed by Queen Elizabeth of England dedicated to Ari's mother, deepens the enigma. Her questions multiply. Why does my mother wear a gun? Who was the tortured man, skinned alive, depicted in the lonely chapel? And why did the portraits of a handsome young man and a beautiful lady show their hearts? Why does a kind, educated man work as a laborer? And what about the horrific pictures in the attic?Ari describes many fascinating characters from the past and the present, but her world exploration grows exponentially when the unexpected events of the year 1968 throw her into turmoil and uncertain future. She is challenged to the limit as she is uprooted from her security and comfort zone. Will her spirit stay on course as she faces the unknown? How and where will she survive? Book two opens on a new continent. Life, seems brutal at first as Ari encounters new races, languages, cultures and customs, to which she must adapt. She might not know it yet, but just like her grandfather, Ari is born to be a fighter.When her family keeps the promise made on the day of their daring escape, Ari's life changes for ever. She discovers faith through an unorthodox priest and a nunnery female school, and slowly and reluctantly surrenders her attachments to the past to embrace incredible opportunities. Caught up in the roller coaster of events, she pours her energy into education, broadcasting, and a string of businesses. Finally, when Ari is ready to relax and settle into the comfort of her hard earned wealth, tragedy strikes again. When her mother dies, Ari has to abandon her father and her affluent lifestyle and relocate again. Her energy ebbing, youthfulness dissipating, she is weighed down by three children. Jobless and without resources, Ari's future on a third continent depends on a single contact. Yet she is full of optimism, after all she has done it before. She knows it now, she was born to be a fighter. But Africa, which caused her so much pain, would possess her heart. Book one, Wondering and Wandering in Europe, describes Ari growing up in an Eastern European country. Her idyllic world begins to shatter as she uncovers her family's past. Her heroic grandfather, mother and father and many of her countrymen from present and past bravely resists persecution until the family oppression end with her family's daring escape to freedom. In her wildest dreams Ari could not imagine the roller coaster of her own life yet to unfold. She might not know it, but just like her grandfather, Ari is born to be a fighter.