The Way of Shalom' is the story of an author's enduring friendship with characters from his three previous novels. Wanting to see them again and introduce them to each other, he brings them together from Turkey, Syria, Nicaragua, and Brazil to his small hometown of Montreat, North Carolina. From this meeting, the lives of both the author and of his characters merge into a new international adventure which finally ends on a Brazilian farm.
This is a book which deals with family dilemmas like impossible romance, alienation, death, and inheritance. It is also a book about societal problems like war, genocide, refugees, the clash of religions, leprosy, and stigma. But most of all, it is a book which highlights the desire to make one's life count and to find shalom - wholeness, well-being, harmony, and peace.
Frist, Tom: - Thomas Ferran Frist has spent much of his life promoting the health, relief, rehabilitation and economic development of people around the world. He has taught at a university in India on a Fulbright Scholarship, set up war time refugee programs in Vietnam as a UNICEF field director, done social research in Tanzania as a Yale graduate student, founded and directed national organizations for the disabled in Brazil, served as the president of international organizations for Hansen's disease (leprosy) in the U.S. and Europe, established an economic development program in Nicaragua, and contributed as a board member and volunteer in colleges and NGOs in the U.S. He is the author of scientific articles as well as 10 books, including four novels. Tom and his wife Clare have two children and five grandchildren and have donated their Brazilian farm to Christian Halls International to become a Christian retreat and study center. More information can be obtained from tomfrist.com or amazon.com/author/tomfrist. Thomas Ferran Frist has spent much of his life promoting the health, relief, rehabilitation and economic development of people around the world. He has taught at a university in India on a Fulbright Scholarship, set up war time refugee programs in Vietnam as a UNICEF field director, done social research in Tanzania as a Yale graduate student, founded and directed national organizations for the disabled in Brazil, served as the president of international organizations for Hansen's disease (leprosy) in the U.S. and Europe, established an economic development program in Nicaragua, and contributed as a board member and volunteer in colleges and NGOs in the U.S. He is the author of scientific articles as well as 10 books, including four novels. Tom and his wife Clare have two children and five grandchildren and have donated their Brazilian farm to Christian Halls International to become a Christian retreat and study center. More information can be obtained from tomfrist.com or amazon.com/author/tomfrist. Thomas Ferran Frist has spent much of his life promoting the health, relief, rehabilitation and economic development of people around the world. He has taught at a university in India on a Fulbright Scholarship, set up war time refugee programs in Vietnam as a UNICEF field director, done social research in Tanzania as a Yale graduate student, founded and directed national organizations for the disabled in Brazil, served as the president of international organizations for Hansen's disease (leprosy) in the U.S. and Europe, established an economic development program in Nicaragua, and contributed as a board member and volunteer in colleges and NGOs in the U.S. He is the author of scientific articles as well as 10 books, including four novels. Tom and his wife Clare have two children and five grandchildren and have donated their Brazilian farm to Christian Halls International to become a Christian retreat and study center. More information can be obtained from tomfrist.com or amazon.com/author/tomfrist.
