Sergei and Hans - Santaniello, Dennis
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The beginning of the Prayers in the Air series Christmas Eve, 1914. The Carpathian Mountains. Sergei is a Russian prisoner in a German camp-a musician who once played in orchards and grand ballrooms, now surviving on memories of a woman named Anya and the life he left behind. Hans is the guard in the tower, a seminary student who never imagined he'd end up with a rifle pointed at other men. When Hans discovers Sergei's rain-soaked journal thrown into a fire, he reads it cover to cover. Page by page, he learns about peaches and cherry trees, about the small human moments that make life worth…mehr

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The beginning of the Prayers in the Air series Christmas Eve, 1914. The Carpathian Mountains. Sergei is a Russian prisoner in a German camp-a musician who once played in orchards and grand ballrooms, now surviving on memories of a woman named Anya and the life he left behind. Hans is the guard in the tower, a seminary student who never imagined he'd end up with a rifle pointed at other men. When Hans discovers Sergei's rain-soaked journal thrown into a fire, he reads it cover to cover. Page by page, he learns about peaches and cherry trees, about the small human moments that make life worth living, about what it means to stay human when the world demands you become a machine. On Christmas Eve, in a storage cabin lit only by firelight, something shifts. They share schnapps and soup. For a few hours, they stop being Russian and German, prisoner and guard. They become two men who recognize each other across a barbed wire fence that was supposed to keep them worlds apart. By morning, one of them will climb that fence. The other will have his rifle ready.
Autorenporträt
Dennis Santaniello is a New Jersey-born author who writes novels, screenplays, and essays. His work moves between historical fiction and nonfiction, with a steady interest in how people carry memory, loyalty, and damage through time. His books include Sergei and Hans, a World War I novel set on the Eastern Front, The Conquistadors Trilogy about the Spanish conquest of the Americas, the nonfiction series The Fruits of History, and Dennis At The Movies. He publishes independently and approaches his work with patience, curiosity, and a voice shaped by long years of writing and revisiting the same questions from different angles.