NO SALUTES FOR YOUR SURRENDER
To introduce myself: I am Antanas, a Canadian-born Lithuanian, and I’ve just published my first novel. Whether or not this is significant to you depends upon how you regard the achievements of Lithuanians and the value of such to Lithuanian communities throughout the world. If you are one who opts to support the endeavors of your compatriots, particularly when these endeavors promote our culture and preserve our heritage, and who likes as well to share in their successes then I suspect that you might like to visit AMAZON.COM for a look at my book, entitled "NO SALUTES FOR YOUR SURRENDER" (please note that this page will be updated soon to include publisher comments, an excerpt of a latter chapter and reviews published by various magazines).
ORDER THROUGH THIS LINK AND HELP A LITHUANIAN ORGANIZATION. The story that it tells is of a young man’s discovery of his father’s exploits during World War II and his part in the Partisan War that Lithuania had waged thereafter against the Soviet Union’s Red Army. Just so, the novel bears significant historical value and because its tale, based largely on truth, is set during the time soon after Lithuania’s move to regain independence it also portrays the social precariousness within Lithuania as it started on its uncertain way back to freedom. Here it is that I expect the novel may be of particular interest to all Lithuanians, but for those who read fiction to simply escape I can assure you will be enthralled by enough mystery, romance and adventure that permeates the tale. The synopsis (printed on the back cover): When Vince Oskaunas arrives at one of Edmonton’s more decrepit cafés for lunch with his father, Andrius, he has no idea that it is to be their very last. Andrius declares such by explaining how Lithuania has finally reclaimed its independence from the Soviet Union and how, therefore, the time has come for him to return home. This confounds Vince, of course, but does not surprise him. Indeed, because his father had never appeared settled or content in Canada, Vince had always suspected that the enigmatic old man would disappear one day.
Neither is Vince surprised when he, just twelve days later, receives a middle-night telephone call that delivers the catastrophic news of his father’s admittance into a Lithuanian hospital. Andrius had been showing signs of illness before he climbed aboard the aeroplane and so Vince was quite sure that tragedy would call. What he did not expect was that the old man would survive it or that such would require him to immediately launch a rescue… or that this mission of mercy would lead him deep into love, to family, to the gangsters within eastern Europe’s blacker markets, to the “Rutskoi Rebellion” in Moscow and to the gruesome truth about the “war-crimes” which had brought about his father’s exile to Canada after
World War II. Please tell your friends and relatives about: No Salutes For Your Surrender, by Antanas.ORDER THROUGH THIS LINK AND HELP A LITHUANIAN ORGANIZATION.
Thank you, Antanas
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