As Flowers Go: Escape to Homeland Amazonia

While Licco Hazan, the narrator of this novel, was held captive at a Bulgarian labor camp in World War II, he could hardly imagine that one day hed have a much brighter future in the far-off, frightening Amazon.

Accompanying the lives of this character and his family and people, Ilko Minev reconstructs the little-known and intriguing story of how Bulgaria's 50,000 Jews were saved from the gas chambers during the heinous Nazi domination of Europe. Torn apart from his brother as a young prisoner, Licco is fortunate enough to count on people who help him flee to the neutral nation of Turkey Help comes from an improbable source: Albert Goring, the brother of Hermann Goring (a top Nazi party leader and designated successor of Adolf Hitler). Albert Goring is instrumental in helping Licco and other jews escape from a sure death. On this journey Licco meets another escapee, Berta - the woman of his life. By several twists of fate, the young couple ends up building a new life in an unknown land, the hot and humid Amazon. Meanwhile, Liccos brother is still in Bulgaria, which has been transformed into a Soviet satellite under the dictatorship of Stalin.

The title of the book takes its inspiration from the worlds pacifist hymn "Where have all the flowers gone," first made famous by the sensual voice of Marlene Dietrich. A must read."