Published in just over a week from today on May 1 2013 “Sebastian” had a great start with a glowing 5 star debut review on Goodreads:
Review:
What a marvelous and well-crafted story Christoph Fischer’s Sebastian is. The story starts with a young sixteen-year-old boy, Sebastian, receiving an amputation to his leg for an infection, from a rusty nail, that went untreated, due to fear of doctors and needles. The reader is instantly drawn in to this protagonist and his mother, Vera, as well as the medical situation that lingers throughout the story that takes twists and turns along with the plots and subplots to help define a character that goes from being weak to growing an inner strength and beauty. Sebastian’s story is the story of his family, the women who enter his life and the war that surrounds and defines them all.
The scenes begin with Sebastian living in a dwelling that houses the grocery store his father Franz works in, that was owned by his father, Oscar, (also Sebastian’s best friend). Also living with them is Oscar’s wife Rebecca who is mostly bed ridden with a bad back, his mother Vera who has a weakened condition. Sebastian is in and out of the hospital with complications from problematic healing leg. Because of the strain on the family workload help is needed and enters a beautiful 18-year-old Ingeborg who becomes infatuated with Franz to complicate matters and ends up with her being replaced by Eva who Sebastian has a crush on as he begins to come into maturity and is sexual hormones awaken. Eva has her own secret that unfolds in a fascinating way opening to a new hire, Margit and her mother, Peroska. When Concurrent with Sebastian becoming involved with Margit his mother, Vera, connects up with friends who play key roles in throwing twists and turns into the story, which involve mystical aspects, séances and connecting with the afterlife. A revelation and slip of communication sends all their lives into chaos and the war in the backdrop takes center stage as the story moves along poignantly and engaging the reader with great depth.
This is a time of great turmoil for people of Jewish faith, where divides are drawn with nations geography being molded and remolded, threatening to unsettle and disrupt millions of peoples. Sebastian’s story is a metaphor for lives thrown into turmoil because of war and what war does to individuals separately and as citizens. It is a story of how the human condition and stresses become heightened and exaggerated when threatened by personal and geographic political evils. This is a story of great compassion and selfishness, of jealousy and love, of loss and risking, of having material and losing it all, of families and finding out what is important, of loyalty and betrayal. It is a story that runs deep in all of us, with emotions displaying what it is to be human. It is a story of every man and every woman with themes and messages that any reader can relate to, right down to the surprise and unexpected ending, which is how we do live our lives, after all is said and done.
This intelligently and sensitively crafted story pulls the reader in, pulls at our heart strings, and keeps us glued to the page, long after the last one is closed, and the memory of Sebastian lingers, one that won’t be easily or readily forgotten. I loved Sebastian.
Thank you Paulette for being the first to write about my book.
Meanwhile “The Luck of the Weissensteiners” has received further 4 and 5 star reviews on Goddreads, where it has an avergae rating of 4.63 from 30 ratings.
It is also No 2 in the Inidetribe Top Ten 14 April 2013
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thank you everybody for your support and believe in me.
I am happy for you! Congratulations! If one day your book is translate in french, tell me it! 🙂
I promise I will . Thank You!
Reblogged this on Taking the road less traveled and commented:
If the author is Christoph Fischer, drop whatever you are reading and read his book.
Thanks for the reblog Ty. You’re up next with a sequel! Please!
it will come. taking a bit longer than i expected. first will be releasing the current book in a new edition and with a bonus chapter in about 2 weeks and that’s taking all my time.
Great, we will be waiting for it. 🙂
Congratulations, Christoph. Two more books for my TBR pile!
Thank you Amy 😉
Congratulations, Christoph. What a wonderful debut for Sebastian. I love the title, great cover, and an even greater review, for a deserving author.
Thank you and apologies in advance, there is an Austrian woman called Ingeborg in it who has nothing to do with you – I swear 😉
At least, you made her young and “knusprig,” albeit a little naughty. Oh well, haven’t we all coveted that second slide of Sachertorte at some point?
Ingeborg
Congratulations, Christoph.
Thank you, it is wonderful to have so much support 😉
My absolute pleasure. It’s a lovely story that lingers days after finishing it. Very well done to you, Christoph for another great read. Paulette
Thank you Paulette, I am very pleased you liked it. It is loosely based on my own grandfather, whom I never met because he lived and died in East Germany, but about whom I have heard from my aunt much later. Sebastian has been with me for years and I am glad you met him, too.
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Reblogged this on The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap and commented:
Another lovely story from writer Christoph Fischer in his new book, Sebastian. It will be out in a couple of weeks. Meanwhile, I had the great fortune of doing an advance reading for him. Boy was I lucky.
Thank you for the reblog, much much appreciated. 😉
Really looking forward to reading this. Should be real soon. Congrats, Christoph.
Thanks T., we are working on it. I promise! Thanks for the support and interest!
I am so honored to be an ARC reader and I am enjoying sebastian very much….BRAVO Mr. Fischer
I had the opportunity to read Paulette’s stirring review “Sebastian”, and because of it, my required reading list continues to grow. I look forward to enjoying this novel. Thanks, Bill
Thank you Bill,
having Paulette’s approval is a huge honour and I am grateful (and somewhat intimidated) to be introduced to her readership. Thanks for the encouragement and support!
Christoph
Congratulations to you, Chistoph. To Paulette, your review has me chomping at the bit. Must add this one to my TBR teetering tower of books!
Thank you so very much!
Christoph
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I’m so happy for you, Christoph! It looks as if your success will soon multiply. 🙂
Thank You Lorna, this pre-release attention is very overwhelming, Thank you so much! x
Congrats, sounds like a must-read book, another for my christmas list! 🙂
Thank you gita4elamats
Cheers,
Ela 😀