Remembrance of Things Past

About the Author ROBERT H. Brown, who hails from southeastern Liberia, proved an excellent student at Maryland College of Our Lady of Fatima (High School Department) and received a scholarship from the Holy Cross Fathers to study at Stonehill College in Massachusetts, where he earned a B.A. in English. He worked as a Research Officer at the Ministry of Information, Cultural Affairs and Tourism in Monrovia before entering Howard University where he was awarded an M.A. He has also earned an M.A. in Language and Literature: English for Speakers of Other Languages from the University of London, and a Ph.D. in Language and Linguistics from the University of Essex. He attended the International Vacation Course in English Language and Linguistics held at the Cambridge Centre for Languages, Sawston Hall, and at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge during the summer of 1984. Dr. Brown taught English, Religion and Reading at St. Hughs Roman Catholic School in Huntington Station, Long Island, New York. He also taught as an assistant professor of English in the University of Liberia for several years. He has published fiction in fourteen volumes of Short Story International in New York. His articles and fiction have also appeared in African Arts and the Liberian StudiesJournal in the United States. The BBC World Service has also broadcast his work. Dr. Browns first collection of short stories, After Long Silence and Other Liberian Stories, was published in New York in 1979. His novel, To Seek a Newer World, was published by Author House in Bloomington, Indiana, in 2008. Product Description Remembrance of Things Past is a work of doomsday fiction set in a modern, mythical country in West Africa. A sequel to To Seek a Newer World, the novels major characters acquire their new personas during an interethnic civil war that devastates their homeland: Daniel Rutherford as an observant chronicler of his times, Felix Kamara as an ambitious alcoholic and incurable romantic, and Maureen Rutherford as a resolute divorce and fortunehunter. In this streamlined novel, Robert H. Brown presents a gloomy picture of a society dogged by sectionalism, ethnicity, ethnic cleansing, and how warlords and rebels take part in indulgent killing, wanton destruction of infrastructure, and dwelling homes. He also depicts a society in which innocent children and civilians behave and act to the privations of wartime because poverty is grimmer and more widespread. As the novel ends, Daniel Rutherford and Felix Kamara are seen strapped in their seats in British Caledonian on their way to their homeland from involuntary exile in England to help in the construction of peace and amity on the ruins of the tragedy of war. Remembrance of Things Past is a magnificent story of passion, love, betrayal, ambition, and pervasive violence.