The Circle

"Manolis weaves an intriguing tale of international malfeasance and its effects on many including two Iraqi war orphans in America and their lovers. Written by a poet, the story contains a fair serving of subtle erotica combined with nightmares of destruction and death."
- Ben Nuttall-Smith

270 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9781865-2-4
Published in 2011 by Libros Libertad
$23.00 CAD

Synopsis

The Circle is a political intrigue story that reflects recent world events and their aftermath. The characters are caught between circumstances of their cultures and politics of the times, players who are not what they portray: naïve and cunning, loyal and duplicitous, sentimental and appetite driven.

The story peers back at the war in Iraq as through an un-typical lens: that of the Iraqi citizen, whose family members were killed, whose property was destroyed, and who turn to their liberator/aggressor for opportunity, in the process getting close enough to witness some of their hosts' own self-destruction.

The Circle is a book attempting to uncover emotional responses to catastrophes that changed the lives of people in an unparalleled way, while it explores the genesis of hatred and its origins.

"This the way of a man against himself when one is in the pangs of hatred."

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