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Sunday, December 19, 2010

FORTUNE CALLS (Story of a bi-racial Jew in Nazi Germany)

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The early years of Nazi rule in Germany brings Hans Wette's world crashing down. As he embraces a father in Africa he barely knows, he tries to reconcile himself with his past and the new reality around him.

Despite his deep love for Germany and overwhelming commitment to his German family, Hans sails to Africa, dreaming of a new life with his father and adventures with his Jewish childhood friend who already calls British Cameroons home.

Hans settles into his unavoidable role as the son of an African legend, tames his impulses to find peace with his passions, and then comes to terms with his new family and enchanted world.

Set against the background of the early years of Nazi rule in Germany, Fortune Calls is a moving story of a mixed-race young man as he confronts his identity in the new Germany and grapples with hostility until it climaxes in a xenophobic attack.


Fortune Calls is the first book in a trilogy entitled Disciples of Fortune . It is the forerunner to Fortune's Master, the second book telling the story of Josef Nana Njike — a whiz-kid adopted and taken to Germany   by a German colonial soldier;  where he earns a university degree, falls in love and cuddles a son he cannot raise as his own; but then returns to German Kamerun and builds a family and business empire that opens the floodgates of Cameroonian consciousness that challenges the new French overlords in their plans for the total subjugation of the former German colony.


                                                                                      

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