Book description
'You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs' The apologists of
Josef Stalin Feliks Zhukovski, a Pole in Paris, is a hangover from
another age - a man who chose politics over people and ideas over love.
His life's work is a travel guide to the old Eastern bloc; his personal
life a series of failures. Unfortunately for Feliks, it's 1991.
Communism has collapsed, East Germany isn't the economic miracle he
wants it to be, and at 61, his travel-writing days are numbered. Feliks
makes the shock decision to sell his guide to an American firm, and sets
in motion a life-changing chain of events. He will meet a brother he
hasn't seen in fifty years, learn the horrifying truth about the mother
he thought abandoned him, and get a second chance with a long-lost love.
But after fifty years of misunderstandings and delusions, can he start
his life afresh? From the boulevards of Paris to the ghettos of wartime
Poland, via Midwest America and the Berlin Wall, THE BREAKING OF EGGS
chronicles the extraordinary journey of a lonely man who discovers it
needn't have been so. As thought-provoking as it is moving, the novel
casts an unflinching gaze on the human cost of a century of wars, in a
voice that never loses its humour or uplifting power. Jim Powell is a
retired advertising director, living between London and Northampton. His
interests include ceramics and political speech-writing. This is his
first novel.
