Bøger af Eric Koch

New Beginnings is the sequel to Eric Koch's landmark work The Golden Years: Glenn Gould, Marshall McLuhan, Lester B. Pearson, Rene Levesque & John G. Diefenbaker published by Mosaic Press in 2013. Once again, Koch is inventing a new literary form that is special and astonishing, crafting five intimate stories of six fascinating and important figures in Canadian history.

This poignant memoir tells the story of a young Jewish refugee and his long-distance love interest, both caught in the grip of WWII.

Eric Koch s career in Canada has spanned broadcasting, both radio and television with the CBC, a prodigious author of both fiction and non-fiction whose work has been translated into Chinese, Italian and German, a university professor who taught media studies at York University and most recently as a blogger (erickoch.ca) whose commentaries on contemporary issues and topics are widely read and discussed. Eric Koch has been at the heart of public affairs and public issues for over one-half century. As an astute observer and protagonist, he has witnessed the many changes in Canadian public life and in its cultural scene. The Golden Years is Koch s inside view and portrait of five major Canadians who helped transformed Canada and who defined its national identity. In many ways, we all live in the shadows of these five vital Canadians. Reading these five stories will illuminate the lives and unique character of these great Canadians and will rekindle our passion to know more about them and our country."

The latest in a series of highly imaginative and successful historical fictions by Eric Koch, following upon: Icon in Love: A Novel about Goethe; The Man Who Know Charlie Chaplin: A Novel about the Weimar Republic; and Earrings: Baden Baden, 1883. Eric Koch has been called the ''master of historical fiction'' and his novels have been widely praised and internationally acclaimed.