Dear Readers:
Today's book of the day, "Lotus" by C K Durham is incredible. Get ready for an adventure that goes beyond your humdrum, been there, read that. This book is one of the best historical fiction novels I've come across since my book "Never Stop Running," so that says a lot about "Lotus." Order your copy today.
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Covert operations. Predictive dreams. Tangled jungle paths. A passionate, whirlwind romance.
Isabela is haunted by her dreams. When a series of synchronistic events merge her nighttime dreams with reality, Isabela follows her intuition to study with a master watercolor artist in Thailand. She descends the airplane airstairs in Bangkok into an overwhelming heat and a future with unforeseeable consequences.
Navy pilot Lance Jameson is flying jets off the USS Midway when he is recruited for a covert mission along the Laotian border and a return to the far eastern land of his youth.
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Mera Rodriguez lives an idyllic life on a small farm in rural El Salvador and is fascinated with the jungle and the myriad of life forms that populate it. Preparations for her quinceañera celebration are underway when government-sanctioned rebels burst into the local church and recruit, at gunpoint, the able-bodied men of her village. Mera must now forge a path of her own.
Charged within the backdrop of the pre-Vietnam war era, three lives converge in an epic, multigenerational novel that spans four decades. Lotus explores the brutality of war, the mysterious interconnection and impermanence of nature, and the freeing power of redemption.
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Product Details
- ASIN : B0B9QRLTCY
- Publisher : C.K. Durham (August 5, 2022)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 518 pages
- ISBN-13 : 979-8985947717
- Item Weight : 1.31 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 1.04 x 8.5 inches
Top reviews from the United States
Two unlikely lovers, a watercolor artist and a US Navy fighter pilot involved in clandestine operations, meet in Thailand in the early 1960s. They and their daughter, who grows up in her mother’s native El Salvador in the late 1970s, are the central characters. The novel includes a long sojourn among the Hmong (which I found fascinating), a short visit to the Montagnards, and violent international drug cartels.
Kindness and cruelty are both present, and the novel highlights the impact of the uncertainty and the preciousness of their lives for these characters. Long after I finished reading the novel, some scenes, some of the suffering, and some of the characters’ resolution of their suffering have stayed with me.
