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Timna Kurtz

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Nature Girl My connection to nature goes back deep into my childhood. My natural curiosity brought me to explore plants, birds and animals to enrich my life. The acquaintance with nature is valuable to me as much as the acquaintance with people. For me every plant or animal is unique – exactly like every person I meet along my way. When I see a beautiful view, it is not enough for me to say: what a nice tree, a lovely flower or a pretty bird. I prefer calling all gods' creatures by their name. Every tree, plant, bird or animal has their unique name and quality just like the human character. I call it a deep well-knowing connection to nature – and a deep acquaintance like this helps me get a deeper knowledge of the human-nature as well… My new and second book - The Old World It all begun from a dream full of water and a flooded world and a few people left behind to start all over again from the beginning. The dream showed me the places I came from – from the lack of self-esteem and an un-worthy feeling and pointed me the direction where I needed to look up to – to wealth and growth and fulfill my destiny in this world. And not just me – the other figures in my dream had to make their own journey as well, which had to collide with mine. My imagination started to work and from a dream came up a summary, from a summary a book was written and from the book came out new sequels and a whole Saga of another world I've created – that was written in a flow during one year of my life. Summary The Old World washed away and disappeared under a wave of floods. The water is rising and covers the face of the earth. It does not happen in the distant future, rather in these very days – in the present. A group of no more than forty people survives the horrible apocalypse. Together they reach a small island, which was the summit of a high mountain left exposed. The small group has to cope now with extreme conditions, avalanches, injuries and hunger and many more risks, along with difficult feelings of loss and bereavement, unique feelings and brave new bondings formed between the people, old and new loves, relationships and important discoveries – while at the background there's a frequent humming sound of the water level declining. In this extreme situation, it is not just survival that is on the line - but significant questions, social and moral issues that survivors need to deal with, especially Gill, the heroine of the first part of the saga, who slowly takes her place as a leader and a wise woman, leading the group to an old-new way of living. From the top of the island at the holy cave and down to the edge of shoreline, where the new tribe is waiting for the water to continue to decline, human instincts rise and surge through difficult situations of danger and excitement – and the important questions of all: Are there any more survivors out there in the world? Is the Old World truly gone? Are they going to be wise enough to take the one-time opportunity, which every person seeks at least once in his lifetime - to erase the past and start all over again from scratch? Or is the past too strong for them and will never let go? And above all this, a terrible prophecy is hovering, threatening to come true…

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