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In 732 AD, the Frankish and Burgundian forces led by Charles Martel defeated an army of the Umayyad Caliphate led by Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi and halted the Muslim advance into Christian Europe. At least, that's what happened in the world as you know it.
Step into the world of The Other Side of Hope, where the world as you know it is turned on its head. In this world, Martel was defeated and the Caliphate continued to spread across Europe until the entire continent was under its control. Christianity was eventually forced to flee west to a distant and dangerous new land. Without the support of European powers, these settlers found only conflict, poverty, and hardship.
In the modern day, this world remains divided. The wealthy Muslim East and the poverty-stricken Christian West are constantly at odds. A single spark is all it takes to ignite fresh conflict and the cycle seems never-ending.
Ethan Lewis is a proud young Christian living in Tioga, the poorest district of the developing nation Lachlond. All he wants is to marry his fiancée and provide for his mother and younger siblings. The only problem is that his mother insists he can't do both. Not until his sister is married off and out of the house.
Hamid Damir is an ambitious Muslim businessman from Istanbul, the financial center of the world. He's trying to build a prosperous and happy future for his family. But, after five years of marriage, his wife is beginning to realize that she has different ideas about what that future should look like.
Everything changes for both young men when the Brotherhood of the Sword, a Christian terrorist organization, launches a devastating attack on Istanbul. As the wrath of Turkey descends on Lachlond, Hamid and Ethan are pulled into a war that sets them on a collision course with the other side and may cost them everything. Will they find hope for a brighter future or be lost in the despair of intractable conflict?
The Other Side of Hope (Audible Audio Edition) RF Dunham Michael Pauley Books
This novel is so well polished off to an extraordinary level that it can be said almost flawless, from my point of view as one of the published authors.After I read this novel on Kindle, I've bought a real book. Because I wish I can feel the surface of papers and ink when I read this novel next time, and I want to reserve this novel in my bookshelf for the lifetime.
For the readers of this review, I'll identify myself. I'm a Japanese, an author of the some kinds of historical/fantasy/Sci-Fi books, Youichi Chikamoto. My books are published in Japanese only, but I can read English, though my writing in English is terrible as you are reading now.
So I'll review this novel mainly from a technical point of view as a worker of making and representing stories. No one may think Japanese isn't good at doing that technicaly, I suppose.
But I can say the conclusion analogically in short.
As an entertainment, this novel is likened to a perfect movie, which after you've watched you need not to remake another story or add some scenes in your imagination. We are frequently in the case that we cannot help wondering why the filmmaker doesn't choose the right way.
But about this novel, you need not do that at all. To enjoy the story you are required to just read and experience what happens in the story. Then, on finishing reading whole the story, you will find yourself with something changed by the experience.
Of course, you know such cases are too rare to expect. But this is the one of the rare cases. Thus, I recommend to read this strongly.
This is enough reason to buy this novel. So, If you don't have to know how technically well this novel is written, what I'll say after now will be superfluous for you. Because I think the technical aspect of the making and telling stories is the most effective when readers are unconscious of it.
But if you consciously read this novel, you will find astounding accomplishment.
-----------------------
The most astounding is how good it is narrated. From the each small sentence to the whole story, narration carefully avoids dullness and maintain freshness.
When one paragraph ends and the next one start, some factors in the story are developing. All the paragraphs have their own roles in the story. None of those can be replaced or changed.
The role of the each paragraph is sometime explaining the situation or some facts in the story, and sometime describing the character's feeling, thinking, memories. The former and the later need different style of narration. I mean to say, the former needs 'outer narration', the later needs 'inner narration', so it is difficult to develop the story with using both styles. This problem is common to every language, my own language, Japanese as well. So whatever language an author uses, it has been chosen by most authors that mainly using single narration, only inner or only outer. In other words, most novels are mainly narrated just to explain character's outer situation, or just to describe character's inner thinking, feeling, or memories.
But, Dunham, the author of this novel have a great talent for narrating a story. He switches the different styles of narration unbelievably smoothly. Thus, we can read the story as we experience the character's 'inner' feeling, thinking and memories with catching up how the 'outer' situation changes at the same time. It is equated to watching a movie with perfect comprehension of how persons in the film are feeling, thinking or remembering. This Dunham's technical accomplishment of narration has a great effect for the purpose to make the story's tension be risen.
As is frequently the case, when we watch a movie and have some questions about behaviors of persons in the film, we always cannot grasp their reason to do that. But, with narration of Dunham's, we can grasp the 'inner' reasons of character perfectly. Therefore, we never need to ask "why?" about story's development. Instead, we feel the development of the story be always inevitable like a destiny. Every person in the story has one's own reason and we can grasp that correctly, whether we can agree with one or not. This structure is a kind of dialectic. One's reason and another's reason make the dialectic structure of the story, and it develops into one conclusion, one thesis, as you can see the ending.
Some would feel that, "This novel fails to describe the difference between The Islamic world and The Christian world. It only refers to foods, color's of skin and languages. Those are not essential, so it seems to just exchange our 'lifestyle' of the real world. Then, why do we should do or read the story about that?"
This is the core problem of this novel, I agree. But maybe it is a first impression. With story's developing, we find that the style of narration is the essential for this novel. Muslims and Christian seem to represent different thesis. A thesis and an antithesis. But in dialectic, those become to be found the same one at all. This structure of 'sameness' is what this story intends to tell us. And this intention works in this novel with its powerful and careful style of narration. Then, it is a useless criticism that two worlds seem to be essentially the same. Because that is what the story intend to tell, the idea that author may want to represent.
I think this technical aspect of narration perfectly correspond to its story. What my experience of writing stories has taught me is that, how to tell is the same as what to tell.
-------------------------
Then, We'll check the novel itself from technical viewpoint. It tells us how this novel accomplish such a extraordinary narration style.
At the beginning of the novel, Dunham's narration style seems to be an ordinary one. Each part of the story is narrated by a voice of a particular person. And in the next part, a voice is switched to another person's. This is the ordinary style, especially in the entertainment novels. But in many cases, whoever's voice narrates the story, there is a same problem. The more 'inner' thinking is narrated, the less suspenseful readers feel the story. It is the case like "Oh, I see what will happen next!". To use this narration style is to take a risk of making readers feel dull.
Dunham solves this problem in two ways.
One way is that, in each new chapter of this novel, we find the story develop a new situation, and some new information is opened in impeccable timing. So our interests never decrease. In other words, the architecture of the story is created very precisely. This idea "architecture" is not the same as what known as "plot", that is the idea of 'what' is told in the story, but the architecture is related to narrate the story 'when' and 'by whom'. In short, 'how' tell the plot. Every paragraph is written in the right timing, right voice, and developing the story to the point of no return. This is the architecture. The right architecture of the story holds us tightly in the first half of this novel.
And we can see another way to avoid dullness in the latter half, especially in Chapter 18. This chapter is the marvelous accomplishment of narrating the story. In this chapter, a secret is revealed. That can be predicted by some clues for readers, but we never feel dull to read this chapter. Instead, we are tightly held by the story. It's like a magic. How can it be made possible? Because, though we can predict what will happen, the character in the story doesn't predict at all, and we can know that from his 'inner narration'. So, when 'outer narration' tells us the situation of revealing secret, we cannot help focusing attention on what the character think, feel and act; his 'inner narration'. These inner and outer narration have mutual interaction. The magic is that. We can find the same structure in our real life. So to speak, we actually live in 'outer situation' with 'inner heart'. So, we feel the story real with this narration style.
This narration style is commonly the way of 'pure' literature, not the way of entertainment. But Dunham has made an extraordinary entertainment novel with this style. Please read and confirm how that's accomplished in this novel, especially in chapter 18 and following a few chapters to the end, by yourself.
Last a few chapters must surprise you. And those chapters will show you how to narrate is the essencial for the novel. In those chapters Dunham uses multiple style to narrate. And it is felt natural for readers. Unbelievable! Please experience it!
In conclusion, it can be said that, from our technical viewpoint, Dunham uses narration in three different phases. First, phase of the architecture of the whole story. In this phase, he controls whether readers can get particular information or not. Second, in the phase of 'outer narration' (the plot phase), he tells what happens in the story. Third, in the phase of 'inner narration', he tells how characters think, feel, intend to act. Each phase is in the mutual interaction of dialectic. And in fact, that is the essence of the effect, which entertains us, usually known as a word "dramatic".
Yes. This novel is dramatic.
I suppose all things I've said is all you've known already. But this novel "The Other Side of Hope" is one of the best technical models of how to tell a fictional story. If you can understand what I want to say despite my terrible English, you might agree with me after reading this novel.
-------------------------
And last but not least, I want to say my impression of this novel leaving from technical viewpoint.
This is so moving. My soul is deeply moved.
I have been living long enough to know that, sometimes we suddenly encounter a chance to sense the true meaning of an incident we've experienced after a long time have passed since that occurred. It is rare, but I know, it can happen, as if it is a miracle, or grace. This novel "The Other Side of Hope" is the story about that kind of hope.
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The Other Side of Hope (Audible Audio Edition) RF Dunham Michael Pauley Books Reviews
As an alternative history lover, I was very excited when I was offered this title for review. A Muslim-dominated world and European Christians forced to flee ever westward? Yes, please!
As I read along, I found myself ticking off the factual basis for the fictional world's current story. As the checkmarks multiplied, I found I was losing enthusiasm for the read itself. (Given the nature of the plot, anything specific I say will be a spoiler.) Add into that some very pet-peevy copy-editing errors (eg, currier for courier in all but one reference) and I was becoming disheartened.
What saved this read for me was the ending. Considering how often I whinge about endings that fail or disappoint, that's pretty astounding. A very common first-novelist flub is to tie up the end of the story with a pretty little bow on its bottom, however incongruous that might be given what's come before. Dunham avoids this trap handily. There are consequences, dark and painful ones, for the actions the characters take. There are no winners, and all the way around, the book ends on a hopeful note that manages not to feel forced or fake or tacked on.
It's a very good bargain in the edition, as it will most certainly keep you tapping left to see who will "get it" (not in the Peckinpah sense!) next. This writer has promise, and with time and experience, will be a must-read one day soon.
I received this ebook in exchange for an honest review.
This story has a slow start, but, the pace picks up after a page or two. I liked the way that the author moves from one characters perspective to another. The two main characters, in my opinion, were well developed. Proof reading is a must. There were a lot of typos and sentence structure errors. (ie. do instead of to do, etc.)
While reading this I got a good perspective of both sides. My countries current troubles/politics and the forth coming elections and the uproar between police and different cultures/races; all came to mind while I was reading this book. The premise is creatively different. If one key detail in the past changed, then everything that was affected by it would change to. R.F. Dunham painted this story with good detail. It was not hard for me to imagine polar opposites for the United States and Turkey. A big part of that difference was in the United States not being well developed or as prosperous as it is in comparison with other countries. The story structure worded very well for the tale it was telling. Ethan and Hamid were on two different but similar life tracks. Family men. One event changed Hamid's life goals completely. Hamid's actions put a detour into Ethan's life goals. What happened to both characters is what made the story. The way that minor characters were written were a bonus to me. I enjoyed the perspectives of almost all the female characters. I could see myself in Ethan's sister, fiancee and Hamid's wife. I was not a fan of Ethan's mother. I'm still not sure how I feel about that character. For me this was an enjoyable eye opener. Sad almost all the way through. One of the dark sides of life that not many people pay attention to and/or address in a positive way. I 100% appreciated that this is a story that has a true ending. I does not leave the reader grasping for straws while waiting for the next book, if there is one. To me the ending was well written without any major holes. I enjoyed reading this. I'm interested in reading R.F. Dunham's next book.
This was great! Seeing the world from this perspective was very entertaining to read. Really kept my attention the whole way through! Excellent writing to say the lease)
Explores the excuses men give to go to war - revenge, safety, patriotism - yet it all comes down to whether or not men can relate to each other as fellow human beings.
This novel is so well polished off to an extraordinary level that it can be said almost flawless, from my point of view as one of the published authors.
After I read this novel on , I've bought a real book. Because I wish I can feel the surface of papers and ink when I read this novel next time, and I want to reserve this novel in my bookshelf for the lifetime.
For the readers of this review, I'll identify myself. I'm a Japanese, an author of the some kinds of historical/fantasy/Sci-Fi books, Youichi Chikamoto. My books are published in Japanese only, but I can read English, though my writing in English is terrible as you are reading now.
So I'll review this novel mainly from a technical point of view as a worker of making and representing stories. No one may think Japanese isn't good at doing that technicaly, I suppose.
But I can say the conclusion analogically in short.
As an entertainment, this novel is likened to a perfect movie, which after you've watched you need not to remake another story or add some scenes in your imagination. We are frequently in the case that we cannot help wondering why the filmmaker doesn't choose the right way.
But about this novel, you need not do that at all. To enjoy the story you are required to just read and experience what happens in the story. Then, on finishing reading whole the story, you will find yourself with something changed by the experience.
Of course, you know such cases are too rare to expect. But this is the one of the rare cases. Thus, I recommend to read this strongly.
This is enough reason to buy this novel. So, If you don't have to know how technically well this novel is written, what I'll say after now will be superfluous for you. Because I think the technical aspect of the making and telling stories is the most effective when readers are unconscious of it.
But if you consciously read this novel, you will find astounding accomplishment.
-----------------------
The most astounding is how good it is narrated. From the each small sentence to the whole story, narration carefully avoids dullness and maintain freshness.
When one paragraph ends and the next one start, some factors in the story are developing. All the paragraphs have their own roles in the story. None of those can be replaced or changed.
The role of the each paragraph is sometime explaining the situation or some facts in the story, and sometime describing the character's feeling, thinking, memories. The former and the later need different style of narration. I mean to say, the former needs 'outer narration', the later needs 'inner narration', so it is difficult to develop the story with using both styles. This problem is common to every language, my own language, Japanese as well. So whatever language an author uses, it has been chosen by most authors that mainly using single narration, only inner or only outer. In other words, most novels are mainly narrated just to explain character's outer situation, or just to describe character's inner thinking, feeling, or memories.
But, Dunham, the author of this novel have a great talent for narrating a story. He switches the different styles of narration unbelievably smoothly. Thus, we can read the story as we experience the character's 'inner' feeling, thinking and memories with catching up how the 'outer' situation changes at the same time. It is equated to watching a movie with perfect comprehension of how persons in the film are feeling, thinking or remembering. This Dunham's technical accomplishment of narration has a great effect for the purpose to make the story's tension be risen.
As is frequently the case, when we watch a movie and have some questions about behaviors of persons in the film, we always cannot grasp their reason to do that. But, with narration of Dunham's, we can grasp the 'inner' reasons of character perfectly. Therefore, we never need to ask "why?" about story's development. Instead, we feel the development of the story be always inevitable like a destiny. Every person in the story has one's own reason and we can grasp that correctly, whether we can agree with one or not. This structure is a kind of dialectic. One's reason and another's reason make the dialectic structure of the story, and it develops into one conclusion, one thesis, as you can see the ending.
Some would feel that, "This novel fails to describe the difference between The Islamic world and The Christian world. It only refers to foods, color's of skin and languages. Those are not essential, so it seems to just exchange our 'lifestyle' of the real world. Then, why do we should do or read the story about that?"
This is the core problem of this novel, I agree. But maybe it is a first impression. With story's developing, we find that the style of narration is the essential for this novel. Muslims and Christian seem to represent different thesis. A thesis and an antithesis. But in dialectic, those become to be found the same one at all. This structure of 'sameness' is what this story intends to tell us. And this intention works in this novel with its powerful and careful style of narration. Then, it is a useless criticism that two worlds seem to be essentially the same. Because that is what the story intend to tell, the idea that author may want to represent.
I think this technical aspect of narration perfectly correspond to its story. What my experience of writing stories has taught me is that, how to tell is the same as what to tell.
-------------------------
Then, We'll check the novel itself from technical viewpoint. It tells us how this novel accomplish such a extraordinary narration style.
At the beginning of the novel, Dunham's narration style seems to be an ordinary one. Each part of the story is narrated by a voice of a particular person. And in the next part, a voice is switched to another person's. This is the ordinary style, especially in the entertainment novels. But in many cases, whoever's voice narrates the story, there is a same problem. The more 'inner' thinking is narrated, the less suspenseful readers feel the story. It is the case like "Oh, I see what will happen next!". To use this narration style is to take a risk of making readers feel dull.
Dunham solves this problem in two ways.
One way is that, in each new chapter of this novel, we find the story develop a new situation, and some new information is opened in impeccable timing. So our interests never decrease. In other words, the architecture of the story is created very precisely. This idea "architecture" is not the same as what known as "plot", that is the idea of 'what' is told in the story, but the architecture is related to narrate the story 'when' and 'by whom'. In short, 'how' tell the plot. Every paragraph is written in the right timing, right voice, and developing the story to the point of no return. This is the architecture. The right architecture of the story holds us tightly in the first half of this novel.
And we can see another way to avoid dullness in the latter half, especially in Chapter 18. This chapter is the marvelous accomplishment of narrating the story. In this chapter, a secret is revealed. That can be predicted by some clues for readers, but we never feel dull to read this chapter. Instead, we are tightly held by the story. It's like a magic. How can it be made possible? Because, though we can predict what will happen, the character in the story doesn't predict at all, and we can know that from his 'inner narration'. So, when 'outer narration' tells us the situation of revealing secret, we cannot help focusing attention on what the character think, feel and act; his 'inner narration'. These inner and outer narration have mutual interaction. The magic is that. We can find the same structure in our real life. So to speak, we actually live in 'outer situation' with 'inner heart'. So, we feel the story real with this narration style.
This narration style is commonly the way of 'pure' literature, not the way of entertainment. But Dunham has made an extraordinary entertainment novel with this style. Please read and confirm how that's accomplished in this novel, especially in chapter 18 and following a few chapters to the end, by yourself.
Last a few chapters must surprise you. And those chapters will show you how to narrate is the essencial for the novel. In those chapters Dunham uses multiple style to narrate. And it is felt natural for readers. Unbelievable! Please experience it!
In conclusion, it can be said that, from our technical viewpoint, Dunham uses narration in three different phases. First, phase of the architecture of the whole story. In this phase, he controls whether readers can get particular information or not. Second, in the phase of 'outer narration' (the plot phase), he tells what happens in the story. Third, in the phase of 'inner narration', he tells how characters think, feel, intend to act. Each phase is in the mutual interaction of dialectic. And in fact, that is the essence of the effect, which entertains us, usually known as a word "dramatic".
Yes. This novel is dramatic.
I suppose all things I've said is all you've known already. But this novel "The Other Side of Hope" is one of the best technical models of how to tell a fictional story. If you can understand what I want to say despite my terrible English, you might agree with me after reading this novel.
-------------------------
And last but not least, I want to say my impression of this novel leaving from technical viewpoint.
This is so moving. My soul is deeply moved.
I have been living long enough to know that, sometimes we suddenly encounter a chance to sense the true meaning of an incident we've experienced after a long time have passed since that occurred. It is rare, but I know, it can happen, as if it is a miracle, or grace. This novel "The Other Side of Hope" is the story about that kind of hope.
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