Through The Strings of Time

About the Book

People throughout the world are trying to flock to America seeking a better life. Circumventing their way into United States, where promises that hard work will obtain their desired goal. Through the eyes of a new visitor in the States and some more seasoned arrivals, we can see how these immigrants abandoned their culture and embraced one of uncertainty. Grigorie a pensioner from Romania deserted by his two sons, coming to see how they fared. One lives in a prestigious city of Boca Raton Florida, succeeding in business only within few years and coming closer to living the American dream;. Grigorie after couple of weeks in Boca doesn’t see what’s so good about this life, his views clash with his son and some others who believe they are the lucky ones to be here. Together with his in-law Petru (who immigrated to America more than 30 years ago), they realized that these seekers of the good life have not done the right thing in abandoning their culture. The beauty, freedom, and happiness of the past cannot be brought back. Only through their ancestral music they could feel the reminiscence of their lost treasures, many times brought by the old antediluvian violin through her strings of time.

About the Author

Born in a country that does not exist anymore, that country was called Yugoslavia, “The land of the South Slavs”. Yugoslavia was not only the nation of the Slavs; it had other ethnic groups, such as Hungarians, Romanians, Gypsies, and many others. Theofil was born and raised in one of those minority groups of Romanian descent. He experience almost ten years of happy village life, before his parents left for Austria. Spending almost two years in the German speaking country, then his parents migrated to New York City. In the Big Apple he played in the streets of Manhattan before his parents decided to move to Philadelphia. In the city of “Brotherly Love” he outgrew his teenage years, eventually winding down in the Sunshine State, where he received his History Degree from Florida Atlantic University. Today he is happily married, living and working in South Florida, where he remained for more then twenty years. “Through the Strings of Time” is his first novel.