{"product_id":"a-geometry-of-snowflakes-9781737774365","title":"A Geometry of Snowflakes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePart memoir, part fiction, A GEOMETRY OF SNOWFLAKES is a book of journeys taken, and journeys ahead.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Writer journeys into present day western Ukraine, to witness the present, to experience the past of the Pale of Settlement in what was then Russia at the turn of the Twentieth Century. And too here is a journey into Czechoslovakia as the clouds of World War II begin to gather, when forgotten German documents in the basement of a suburban American house lead the same Writer into a search for a Kindertransport child placed on a train in Prague in 1939, never to see his parents again. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTwo parallel stories intertwine in fact and in fiction to create a portrait of loss, of remembrance, of possibility. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn the act of bearing witness there is finally redemption. There is hope.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1909, a young man and his younger sister leave the Russian Pale of Settlement on a train from the present day city of Kovel. Behind them the life of their small shtetl disappears forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1939, a young five year old boy is placed on a Kindertransport train by his parents, bound for Scotland, before a door closes behind him. He will never see them again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2018, in a suburban American basement, a Writer finds of forgotten box of documents mostly in German that in time will take him on an extraordinary journey into the past on the eve of World War II, as the world begins to change, when hate replaces hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd in 2025 that same Writer travels into Ukraine on a journey of places and people. A search for memories of the past. For the present world in a time of war. For self-knowledge. And perhaps for redemption.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eA GEOMETRY OF SNOWFLAKES: imagine the past, live the present.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ogham \u0026amp; Dabar Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/05\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781737774365\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d","brand":"Greg Dinner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53376080347317,"sku":"9781737774365","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9781737774365.jpg?v=1790261331","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-geometry-of-snowflakes-9781737774365","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}