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Creative Writing Critique (Satis Shroff): Fire in the Blood

Creative Writing Critique (Satis Shroff): FIRE IN THE BLOOD Review: Irene Nemirovsky Fire in the Blood, Vintage Books, London 2008, 153 pages, 7,99 Sterling Pounds (ISBN: 978-0-099-51609-5) Denise Epstein was 13 when her mother Irene Nemirovsky was deported to Auschwitz, where she eventually died in 1942. The daughter is now an octogenarian and was instrumental [...]

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Fastnachtzeit in Friburg (Germany) and Basle (Switzerland) (Satis Shroff)   When we cry ‘Narri, Narro!’in Freiburg, they rejoice in Cologne, Mainz and Düsseldorf, for it is carnival-time. And the German and Swiss TV channels have mostly carnivals on their screens. But most of the people, young and old, are out in the streets of their [...]

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Switzerland:   Votive Images of the Mountain Chapel at Stoos (Satis Shroff)     Stoos is located in the Alp world of inner Switzerland 1300m above sea-level. This was once a region dominated by shepherds and farmers. Till 1933 you could go to Stoos only by foot, along a steep trail via Morschach or Ried [...]

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