BLOOD RAIN On St. Mark’s Square

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BLOOD RAIN On St. Mark’s Square

Author: Gaither Stewart
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9788119654314
Publisher: Cyberwit.net
Pub. Date: 2024
Price: $15

I have seen red sand on Rome streets when warm Sirocco winds from the Sahara Desert blow it across the Mediterranean Sea. While passing over the Sea, the Sirocco wind picks up cool moisture, producing the red rainfall known in southern Italy as "blood rain". (Stuart Stuart)
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The longing for a safe space is a key message of this complex novel, a space where we can share experiences and hash out difficult problems. Blood Rain on St. Mark's Square offers an apt space for communal nostalgia, for the times when community was a common part of our lives. Italy’s squares—the piazzas—are such places, where major communal actions begin and end. In today’s world, there is a longing for community even by those who have never experienced it. As our tongue seeks the missing tooth, so too do our minds seek those places and experiences lost to us in time. This may be a negative pursuit filled with anger for what has been lost, or a positive pursuit filled with hope to re-find the missing element. The Square is both a mental space of communal memory and is a physical space around which this novel centers. Metaphorically, the square is that space where we come together for momentous celebrations or sad remembrances. This novel urges us to carefully tend this space, and in Gaither Stewart’s inimitable style, he offers us an opportunity to reflect on our humanity and to see what we lose when we are torn apart. (Rowan Wolf)

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Gaither Stewart
	Gaither Stewart regularly writes at the intersection of history, fiction, and his own considerable experience as bothwriter and citizen of the world. This brings a poignancy to his writing, mixed with the very human struggles of self and relationship that frequently occur at historical crucibles such as WWII, the cold war, western imperialism in Mexico and South America - as in this collection of short stories - or the contemporary military chess moves - as in his Europa Trilogy: The Trojan Spy, Lily Pad Roll, and Time of Exile. In Signs of the Time, the reader takes a journey with ordinary people who are each extraordinary in their own way. We see the world through their eyes. This is the gift of Stewart’s art and is amply demonstrated in this fine collection of short stories.