Orphans of War, by Tom Milton
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Orphans of War, by Tom Milton
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Rosario Suárez, an orphan adopted by an American couple, returns to her native village in Guatemala with two missions: to teach in the school, and to find out what happened to her mother, who along with all the people in the village disappeared one night fifteen years ago. The village, Dos Arroyos, is in a region of the country where for many years the military fought a brutal war against guerrillas. Rosario arrives at the mission house of the nun who rescued her when she was eight, and as soon as she has settled into her job as a teacher she begins her investigation. When she starts asking questions about what happened in Dos Arroyos fifteen years ago she is warned by the local landowner, who supports the military, to stick to her mission of teaching, but she continues to pursue her investigation with help from the young doctor at the village clinic. As she finds more and more evidence that the people in the village were massacred, her relationship with the doctor intensifies, and as she unravels the mystery of what happened that night fifteen years ago, she discovers things that challenge her pursuit of justice.
Orphans of War, by Tom Milton- Amazon Sales Rank: #7457890 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-18
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .47" w x 5.51" l, .58 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 204 pages
About the Author Tom Milton has had careers as a journalist, an international banker, a venture capitalist, and an educator. He is author of the novels No Way to Peace, The Admiral's Daughter, All the Flowers, Infamy, A Shower of Roses, Sara's Laughter, The Golden Door, Outside the Gate, Leave of Absence, and Invisible Wounds. He lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. The Limitations of Human Justice By Barbara Benjamin “In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers,” claims Neville Chamberlain. Certainly none of the characters in Tom Milton’s latest novel, Orphans of War, were winners in the guerrilla war that erupted some 15 years ago in Guatemala, where this story unfolds.Rosario Suarez, a native Guatemalan in her early twenties, who has lost her mother in the war, leaves her adoptive parents in America and travels back to Dos Arroyos to teach the young children and to learn more about her mother’s disappearance. Suspecting that her mother, along with the other villagers of Dos Arroyas, may have been massacred, she is determined to find the murderers and bring them to justice. In her village, she meets and falls in love with a young doctor, who, in fact, may have been one of the murderers, since, as a youth, he had been conscripted into the military and forced to be part of a firing squad not far from Dos Arroyas. Both of his parents had been killed by the guerrillas, believing that they harbored a military man, who was actually his beloved uncle who visited often. The third orphan in this story, Enrique, adopted by his grandparents when his father dies, finds out his father was one of the military personnel involved with the massacre, and he is horrified that his grandparents will have to learn about this.In this war, not even the powerful Don Nicanor wins. His woeful explanation of his reason for ordering the massacre of 169 innocent people by the military illustrates the futility of war for everyone involved: “We were at war, and they were helping the other side.” When his newly claimed daughter, Rosario, confronts him with the fact that he wasn’t sure they were guerillas, he replies: “You wouldn’t have known a guerrilla if you saw one. They looked like ordinary people. And that was the problem – you couldn’t tell who was on your side.”While the main character, Rosario, focuses heavily on finding justice, and while justice, in some form, may have been served when Don Nicanor is given a life sentence for ordering the massacre at Dos Arroyas, no measure of human, legal justice can ever compensate for the injustice done to the innocents who were massacred or to the orphans left behind. And like Don Nicanor, no one can tell for sure who is “on your side,” who is friend and who is foe. Human discernment of good and evil, of right and wrong, of justice and injustice is often imperfect. Perhaps, that’s why we are told in Ecclesiastes 12:14: “For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil.”As Rosario lays the bones of her massacred mother to rest, the reader is struck by the most gripping lesson learned in Orphans of War: “Nobody wins in a war” [Donald Hodge, the last surviving veteran of World War I].
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