Mahayk And The Barber Of Lyle

About the Book

Synopsis MAHAYK AND THE BARBER OF LYLE This literary novel is about a twelve-year-old Japanese violinist, who has lost everything when 360 B-29 bombers have burned Tokyo in 1945, becomes a Gamigaze pilot. During his mission, US Task Force 78 shot him down in Korea Strait. General Ma Halbin who survived Tragic Long March of the Red Army and fought the Japanese all his life until being fatally wounded and disabled by the Japanese attacks in Yenan, saves this enemy boy. The boy fights Korean War; becomes a commander; and exiles to America accused of plotting a coup d’etat.

About the Author

Norman S. deLisle was born in 1943; WWII destroyed his family in 1945; came to America in 1964 and vagabonded until meeting his bride. He earned degrees––a BA, MA and MS––but missed his PhD by failing dissertation, and quit 16 years of schooling working odd jobs. When his wife died in 2000 after 32 years together, he has been living alone a hermit so devastated with his two cats, Cindy and Taro, going nowhere, totally withdrawn from society, calling or visiting nobody, just reading or writing in Lisle, Illinois.