THE LOTUS EATERS
by Tatjana Soli
(St. Martin’s, Spring 2010)
Tatjana Soli’s first novel was over ten years in the writing and research.
Intrigued by the life of a female photojournalist who covered the war in Vietnam, the author was drawn into researching the lives of news correspondents in other wars. What she discovered in a number of these cases was a kind of addiction to the thrill of war. “After a while,” she observed, “some of them are unable to break away and staying behind becomes a kind of death wish. They get obsessed with the high that is war, the sense of urgency and purpose it gives them.”
In her vividly rendered novel, Soli provides a rare glimpse into the life of a woman searching for meaning in the chaos and horror of war. Her heroine is one of the few women working in a man’s world, as a news photographer in Vietnam. THE LOTUS EATERS is, at once, an adventure story and a love story. As the author observes, “If there is any grace to be found in war, it’s only in individual acts of kindness, only in the love of one human being for another.”
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