Kari, M: Underdog Comedies

We all live in a "glasshouse" of our own, knowing very little about theother "glasshouses" around us. Let's get out of our "glasshouses andlearn more about life in other professions and recognize that we are all"underdogs". The comedy doesn't take only this into account, but it alsoinvites us to look at life with a smile, because those, who smile, livelonger.When we ask ourselves who the underdogs in our society are, who comesinto our mind? When we think of the "social ladder", maybe wecome to the lower areas of that ladder: beggars or garbage collectorsmaybe, but surely no solicitors, doctors and certainly not a king or aqueen ...But when we look closer, isn't everybody an underdog, concerning obligationsand dependencies each and every one of us has to other people?Ten comedic but still thought-provoking stories about very differentlives tell us, that even if the jobs are so much different, yet the peopleare always the same. As a result a beggar can be more free and unboundthan a king - so who's the underdog now?Born in Transylvania during world war II, Martin Kari's life followedmany pathways. Technical and then formal higher education preparedthe author for a life with a sense of exploration, adventure, intellect andhumanity. Having worked and lived on four continents as a global citizen,he settled in Australia with his wife and six children in 1981. It wasonly in retirement that he found the time to take up the pen again, provingthat it is never too late to take on something new in life. Martin haspublished worldwide 12 books so far ranging from politics, novels, travelstories, biography to practical philosophy (in English and German).