Kotar's Third Raven Son Book Reviewed

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Reviewer: Forrest Schultz schultz_forrest@yahoo.com 770-583-3258

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June 4, 2018

SURPRISES  GALORE  IN  KOTAR’S  THIRD  RAVEN  SON  BOOK

A Review of

Nicholas Kotar The Heart Of The World (Waystone, 2018) 

                          427 pp    $13.99   ISBN: 978-0-9988479-5-5

Reviewer:  Forrest W. Schultz

       Winston Churchill aptly depicted Russia as “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma”.  Therefore it is not surprising to find a lot of complexity, surprises, and strangeness in classical Russian literature and in the recently published Russian literature of Nicholas Kotar, who is an American of Russian descent.  In his most recent book, The Heart of the World,  one of the characters is called The Unknown Father, and the entire story is suffused with surprising and seemingly impossible things.

     One of these, the main one, is noted at the top of the rear cover:  “Can A Crippled Girl Heal The World?”.  It is interesting to observe that this question had already been answered by an Englishman, T. S. Eliot, in his Four Quartets poetry where he states that we can only be healed by the “Wounded Nurse” (meaning Christ).  So, Kotar’s Crippled Girl, is a Christ-figure in his story.  AND, since the salvific process takes a lot of time, Kotar’s story is quite lengthy!  (I figured that one out myself!).  QED and Amen !!