Author Description

Heracles Papadopoulos, a charismatic Harvard professor adored by his students, has an official take on his past that he shares to satisfy the curiosity of the people he meets. And while it does contain a grain of truth, it is not entirely true. A time comes, however, when he has to face the painful past that casts a shadow over his whole life. At the time when the world is divided with the Iron Curtain, an unlikely chain of events connects the fate of a Polish girl and an American boy. Everything begins in the rainy summer of 1975 when a young man sneaks into the room of a blind pianist. Enthralled by both the woman and her piano playing, he spends the next 20 days coming into her dark room and slowly, carefully closing the distance between them.In the Shade of the Good Trees is a captivating tale on the essence of love that knows no stereotypes and prejudices.