Show Y Young ung Nordic Adventurer Seeks Paradise in Wandering Tale Unique Psychological Problem in Latest Reck ven Effort By ByArt y Art Deck Paradise Is a peculiar place if it one onne is to judge solely by the descriptions of ot it offered In Fritz Reck- Reck l en s new book Sven DIscovers Discovers DIs- DIs covers coers Paradise It is wholly not in accord with any biblical ar arrangement arrangement arrangement ar- ar pf Qt f the hypothetical somewhere re but It is Svens Sven's own paradise and that's that s all aU that matters that hat is In Svens Sven's way of ot thinking Sven by the tine wa way is a young joung aspiring engineer of ot Nordic origin lo Following the war he hew w walks alks a v very ery desolate and barren path striving In n vain to gain employment for his mis widowed mother and himself Finally this much too mature youth sets out to conquer the terrors of at differential and Integral calculus and finally ends up by entering the British irrigation service in Egypt as a full tuli fledged engineer That starts the boy Sven on the first leg of at the tine journey toward paradise and in the language of ot the theauthor theauthor author it has lIas much to do with what follows The The- daughter of ot the supervisor supervisor supervisor super super- visor of ot the expedition one Peggy strikes the boy Sv Sven n as being v ery fascinating much as any woman would strike a a. young joung man wino who had been deprived of at their relations relations re- re lations b bj by being forced to live the h hart rd youth which inevitably showed Itself by Svens Sven's premature gray hair lair Nevertheless Peggy appealed to the he boy Sven Svea and he ImmedIately falls alls in lovo loyo with her having his first affair in the port of ot Marseilles where he tastes or rather smells the he first perfume of or the far east cast the he st stagnant ponds the tingle of camel dung fires tIres and all else that place lace an individual in the throes throes' of ot ofas otas as the tIne author tells telis us the chams- chams sin In But here in Marseilles tho the S boy Sven has yet et to feel the torrId wind that liat blows over Egypt tossing g the minds of ot and natives about promiscuously promiscuous He Ho has j yet et to feel the charm which the weird climate climate cli cli- mate cast over an Individual from Europe And a as yet he has not ex experIenced experienced ex- ex the anguish and sufferIng suffering suffer suffer- ing which fall taU upon all aU northern In Invaders Invaders In- In aders of ot this God forsaken land where men attempt to calm their pangs of ot heartache and misery by drinking W wIth Ith a sullen indifference But above all this tinis we must not I forget that Sven is destined to discover discover dis die cover paradise He Ie struggles on pitting his northern vigor against the laziness haziness of ot the natives with a asure asure asure sure fire tIre step until a spell of at the places him in contact with witha a native girl I Kaina Naina aina one of ot the daughters of a tribe whose laws forbid for tor- bid any of their women omen to mingle with a European The Tine penalty for such a hein heinous crime is death death I. i horrible horrible- death The boy Sv Sven Sen en meets all aU these ob- ob finds that he mu mus mut t pay tho the high price of ot being ostracized from society for tor his ilis paradise but buthe buthe buttie he tie does and that's that All AU goes well until things begin to rumble and stir beneath the surface in this little town In Egypt and then Ulen the shell explodes and none other than the tho British official comes to the boy Svens Sven's rescue passing off ort his his- activities with a mere gesture and Well every red blooded he man must sow his wild oats at some time Ume or other The Tho author of this interesting book of adventure is perhaps best bett remembered for his Woman oman in Flight Those who wino enjoyed that will more than revel reel in his latest concoct jn The book has Inas speed Is written in a a. fascinating style and i Is further urther enhanced by the unique psychological problem which has bas been woven oven into to it Horace Horace Liveright Liveright Live Live- right New York |