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Mind of Winter

Mind of Winter

Author(s): Shira Nayman

Location(s): London, Long Island, Shanghai

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Era(s): WW2 onwards

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The narrative unfolds through three different points of view, Oscar, Christine and Marilyn, in locations on three continents: East Hampton, Shanghai and London. A Mind of Winter is a complex, page-turning, literary psychological thriller, which takes up a rich array of themes: the ways in which we choose our beliefs and build our lives around them: the self-deceptive shadings that undulate within: the moral ambiguities of being an artist: and the ways in which socio-historical circumstances inevitably shape personal identity and destiny.

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The overabundant, but beautifully expressed descriptions convey the author’s skill with language and heighten the reader’s curiosity to know the truth: who really is Oscar? Is it possible to know, without a doubt, when...

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