Description:

Echoes of Silence follows three families during the final months of WWII. This tale of human strengths and failings provides the reader with a unique view of ordinary people whose lives are forever changed by the far-reaching effects of war. Especially touching is the plight of Japanese-Americans held captive by their own nation throughout those turbulent war years. Another thread explores one of the main characters, Konrad Bauer, who immigrated from Germany ten years earlier. He is a man of high ethical standards, but the arrival of a young man from Germany causes him to challenge and courageously face the demons from his past. This part of the story portrays a journey of suspicion and hate, which plays out on the canvas of this story and ultimately results in learning to trust and to forgive. Bauer's actions speak of a vital truth--that until we are committed to revisiting and making amends for the mistakes of the past, that past will hold us hostage and color our present.