An Author To Donate 20% Of Proceeds To The “Plant A Tree In Israel” Program

To celebrate the publishing of her novel, “Looking for Sarah: A Story of Survival” in an E-book format, Margarita G Silver will donate 20% of all proceeds to the Jewish National Fund in support of its forestry and ecology activities.
By: Margarita G Silver
 
Sept. 1, 2009 - PRLog -- Sunny Isles Beach, FL  -- Sunny Isles author and resident, Margarita G Silver has announced that she will donate a significant portion of all proceeds from the sale of her first e-published novel to the Jewish National Fund.  A historical fiction novel, “Looking for Sarah: A Story of Survival” recounts the coming of age journeys of two young Jewish women during the two very different chapters of Soviet Union’s history.  Drama, heartbreak, and horror fill this fictionalized family memoir that spans four generations and mirrors Russia’s extraordinary century of turbulence.  

“The idea to write the book came to me when I heard my great-grandmother’s amazing story of loss and survival,” said Margarita G Silver, the author of “Looking for Sarah”.  “We had to whisper these kinds of stories in those times, for even walls had ears.  As I wrote, the novel was slowly becoming a compilation of my great-grandmother’s story, of my own experiences and of the experiences of other young Jewish women, whose fate was to grow up during the worse times of institutionalized anti-Semitism in the USSR”.

While many stories have been told about the violent bloodshed of the Revolution, the terror of the Stalin era, and the horrors of Holocaust, nothing has ever been written to describe the humiliating everyday experience of growing up a Jewish woman. “Looking for Sarah” provides a first-hand account of and a unique window into that experience and of how it shaped the identity of the young Soviet Jewry.

For a limited time (September 1, 2009 through December 1, 2009) the author will donate 20% of the proceeds from each sold copy to the Jewish National Fund in support of their Plant a Tree Program.

About the author:
The author, Margarita G Silver, was born and grew up in Moscow, USSR.  At the age of nineteen she convinced her family to flee the Soviet Union in search of freedom.  With the help of the American Jewry the family settled in the US, where they built their lives anew.  But the experience of growing up Jewish in one of the most anti-Semitic places on Earth stayed with Margarita and she decided that the story must be told.  “Looking for Sarah” is this story.

The summary of “Looking for Sarah” is available at:

http://mgsbooks.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/looking-for-sara...

The novel is available for purchase at SmashWords at:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/3630

You can contact the author at http://mgsbooks.wordpress.com/contact/

About Smashwords:
Launched in 2008, privately held Smashwords operates a digital publishing platform and online book store for independent ebook authors, publishers and their readers. The free service puts authors and publishers in full control over the publishing, pricing and marketing of their works. In addition to receiving exposure to hundreds of thousands of potential readers on the Smashwords web site and via distribution on Stanza, authors and publishers receive up to 85% of the net proceeds from sales of their works. For readers, Smashwords offers the opportunity to discover exciting new voices in fiction and non-fiction. Smashwords, Inc. is based in Los Gatos, California, and can be reached on the web at http://www.smashwords.com.
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