Synopsis "To Want, and Want Not!: Eighteen Short Stories) (in English)"
This book "To Want, and Want Not!" is the author's sixth distinct work, in his series of thus far, nine books of nonfiction short stories; a compound work of literature with some one-hundred and forty-two stories in all nine books. Most of the stories have been written in the last thirteen years and never published publicly on paper. Now restored and reedited for book distribution, and yet many are current. The nine book collection, the series consist of: "In My Time," "Men among Men," "Times and Seasons," "The Way You Have to Be," "An Unsuspecting Life," "To Want, and Want not!" "Winner or Loser Takes Nothing," "A Changeable Banquet," and "Nowhere into Nothing." Dr. Siluk writes with conviction, courage, he moves quickly from one short story to another as literary history moves quickly. Siluk's work is typical of this renascence, this expression of America (from the 1950's to the present), from a Midwestern viewpoint. In nonfiction this movement of independence has taken the form of the fundamental lives of many people who make up his stories: from his High School Days, to the Cayuga Street Gang, to Germany and the Vietnam War, and the Milwaukee riots of 1967, and a time when he was a shoeshine boy, in St. Paul, Minnesota 1959. To the waters of the Drake Passage. Much in line with the writings of Jorge Luis Borges style.This is Dr. Siluk's 62nd International Book, "To Want, and Want Not!" He is a poet since twelve years old, a writer, Psychologist, Ordained Minister, Decorated Veteran from the Vietnam War, Doctor in Arts and Education. He received twice Honorary Doctorate, and was appointed Poet Laureate in Peru, nine times. One of his books, "The Galilean," took Honorable Mention at the 2016 Paris Book Festival, and received an award from the Congress of Peru, for his cultural writings. He is originally from St. Paul, Minnesota, and lives with his wife Rosa, in Lima, Peru and High up in the Andes, in Huancayo, also, in Minnesota.
