Dancing with the Hurricane (ePub)

It's the 1950s, and thirteen-year-old Laibel Goldenstein and his family settle in the newly independent state of Israel. By day Laibel stalks the wild orange groves with his friends, by night he cavorts with his dashing Uncle Fred – former ballroom dancing champion and keeper of the family's darkest secrets... Forty years later Laibel Goldenstein has become Leon Gold and is a brash and successful businessman in Australia. But when his beloved uncle attempts suicide and ends up in intensive care, Leon is confronted with a past he's long tried to repress. While his uncle listens without really hearing and his girlfriend Rosa packs her bags ready to bolt, Leon careers back through time, recalling his family's flight across four continents. Slowly he begins to understand why he is who he is. And at last the family vault is unlocked. Unearthing a lost decade and stunned generation, Dancing with the Hurricane is a novel about one man's long-time coming –of-age and how he turned war into peace, found laughter in pain, and lost himself in the folds of a passionate tango. Author bio: Leon Silver has lived a life which is varied and full of travel. Born in Shanghai, Leon came to Australia in the mid 1950's with his immigrant family who settled in Melbourne. With a strong education in Textile Technology & Design, Leon's work was in fashion but he has been writing all of his life. Six years ago, with five novels in his top drawer, he ceased work to pursue his passion and brave it as a full time writer. A first novel, "Dancing With The Hurricane", (published 2004 by HarperCollins Publishers) attracted solid reviews and media profile with interviews and photos in fourteen national newspapers. The Age newspaper described that book as "a wonderfully evocative page-turner containing a rich and motley cast of characters." Leon believes all of these novels to have strong commercial potential. Leon writes these novels in rotation, putting them away in 'the vault' for a few months at a time, to ripen and mature, until the characters bellow to be let out to show him what they can do. When they resurface, it is indeed a pleasure to reengage with their world and it's like visiting a familiar, parallel universe.