Synopses & Reviews
Edzard Schaper is a great storyteller who, it seems has absorbed the spirit of a whole people. With a sweet love for detail, and never without a smile, he tells the old legend of the fourth king. While most probably told from generation to generation, this charming little story has never been written with such loving imagination and deep spirituality. As it traces the adventures of the Czar who sets off to follow the star and find the king of kings in Bethlehem, this precious book offers a kaleidoscope of human life itself.
Synopsis
This book is about the beauty of friendship and true compassion; the frustration and desperation over our human limitations; the adventures of a life's journey in the tradition of storytelling, from the depths of Russian spirituality.
About the Author
Edzard Schaper was born in the formerly German territory of today's Russia in 1908 and died in Bern, Switzerland in 1984. During his long and adventurous life he also lived in Germany, England, Finland, Sweden, and Lithuania. While continuously pursuing his writing, he also worked as a sailor, fisherman, wood worker, soldier (for the Finnish army), and journalist. He wrote numerous short stories and novels, focusing his literary work on the quest for inner freedom, and for the meaning of suffering.