Title: Silent Battlefields: A Novel

 

A Moving Story Intelligently Written

 Ronald C. Comer, Ph.D.

 

Among the delights in reading Silent Battlefields are the deeply human connections one makes with this novel's sensitively developed characters. It is difficult to comprehend how this could be Hugh Rosen's first novel when taking into consideration the sagacious craftsmanship with which he reveals to his readers the inner souls of his characters while guiding us through multiple intervening levels of their truly moving and eloquently told life stories.

 

This is a novel that never gets bogged down in unnecessary exposition. Instead, readers will find themselves moving through intriguing situations and thought-provoking episodes from beginning to the novel's end. I found myself marveling at the many twists and turns of this multi-layered story, and impressed by an ever expanding awareness of how each character's inner-most struggles are so carefully revealed at just the right moments within the tapestry of very believable conflicts each character presents.

 

The book is aptly named as it is not about a very loud World War ll, nor is it specifically about the horrors of the Holocaust. However these historical tragic realities do serve as the backdrop upon which the characters in this novel play out their personal struggles to define their lives with each other and to find within themselves the courage to make the choices so essential in their respective lives. For me Silent battlefields refers to the battlefields we experience within our own psyche when engaged in desperate private struggles to break free of thought and behavior patterns that no longer seem to work in the face of ever-changing life challenges. Because we all can relate to the existence of our own "silent battlefields" the struggles and triumphs presented in this exquisite novel make for an irresistible read.

 

 Ronald C. Comer, Ph.D., Director, Behavioral and

   Addictions Counseling services, Drexel University.

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