Historical Novel
Date Published: January 9, 2019
It actually happened.
Hard to believe that two teenagers and a special child, torn from their comfortable and insulated Jewish community in wartime Romania, were taken in by Gypsies camped in the forest. How could they find their places among the flamboyant people, whose lifestyle and ways of confronting the hostile surrounding society were so different from that of the Jews?
This heart stirring story fleshes out this occurrence, presenting the dilemmas, enlightenments, emotional attachments, and mutual understandings experienced by the child protagonists.
Interview with Helen (Wininger) Livnat
How many hours a day do you put into your writing?
It depends on my inspiration
Do you read your book reviews? If yes, do they affect what
you write in the future?
I read all the reviews and they make a big
impact on me
Do you leave hidden messages in your books that only a few
people will find?
Sometimes
Can you tell us a little bit about the characters in “Shattered Paths”?
My heroes are three young persons. For each of them I have built a whole and
special world: Anna, an orphan girl who two young men come into her life and
build a special personality. Shraga, a religious boy who enters a communist resistance
and connects with the other two young men and Michele, a child on the verge of
autism whose violin is the love of his life and he was saved by it
Can you tell us a little bit about your next books or what you have
planned for the future?
I'm
about to finish writing my
seventh book about a boy rescued from a concentration camp through a Ukrainian
family
Do you allow yourself a certain number of hours to write or do you
write as long as the words come?
As long as the words come.
Do you have a certain number of words or pages you write per day?
No
What inspires you to write?
Other writers
and my own imagination.
One day I felt I had to write,
as a result of studies I had read about the Holocaust and historical events that
interested me
Would you rather
Read fiction or non-fiction
Non-fiction
Read series or stand-alone?
stand alone
Read Science fiction or horror?
No
Read Stephen King or Dean Koontz
Stephen King
Read the book or watch the movie?
Read the book first
Read an ebook or paperback?
paperback
Be trapped alone for one month in
a library with no computer or a room
with a computer and Wi-Fi only?
Library
Do a cross-country book store tour
or blog tour online?
Both
About the Author
I was born into a bourgeois family in Bukovina, a region of Romania, in a town named Gura Humorului. The first daughter of a young couple, and the first grandchild in the family. Endless happiness!
Endless happiness?
The sounds of war were approaching our area, and happiness turned into panic and fear of the unknown.
In October 1941, when I was just sixteen months old, a proclamation ordered all the Jews of the town, healthy, sick, Young and old, to gather at the train station and bring with them everything their hands could carry.
We were exiled to an area called Transnistria, where death awaited about sixty percent of those arriving. A slow death from starvation, cold, hunger and diseases. The only goal we had there was to survive.
After three years of suffering and losing our beloved, we returned to Romania and all we wanted was to get out of the country that did not remember its Jews, and their contribution to the economy, growth, and culture.
One evening, ten years ago, I suddenly realized I had to write down all the tragic events that happened, and all the unbelievable miracles that took place and saved me and my family’s life.
I had to write it down before our generation of survivors would disappear, and things would be forgotten.
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