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THE EARS OF THE JACKAL
At first, I thought it was a dead dog. Many animals were found dead by the roadside, hit by an army truck or run over by a refinery tanker. It was only when I neared the corpse that I noticed the turban. It’s an Arab, I thought, a dead Arab.
In French colonial Algeria, the War of Independence raged for eight years, with unrelenting violence, merciless acts of revenge, and the ongoing slaughter of innocent people. Daniel grew up amidst the turmoil. His resourceful nature and quick thinking allowed him to navigate the dangers with fortitude. His youth was full of adventures, set against the backdrop of conflict.
In July 1962, as inevitable independence loomed, everything changed.
With humour, vivid storytelling, and unflinching honesty, Daniel shares his remarkable experiences, offering an honest and captivating portrait of life during war. The Ears of the Jackal is a powerful memoir that captures the essence of a childhood lived during a pivotal moment in history.
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ACCESS DENIED
Vivian is a writer of erotica. She is in the process of writing a novel that might take her to the Paris World Erotica Symposium. Unfortunately, she’s experiencing difficulties with an illegally downloaded computer programme. Her chances are diminished when her husband loses his job as a head chemist with an ink manufacturing company whose Chinese partner is caught doing the wrong thing.
So, with a husband out of work, a shady brother-in-law who needs bailing out of a Central American jail, an emerald and diamond laden sister-in-law who is neurotic and narcissistic, a young pizza delivery man who saves the day but whose parents have kicked out of home because of his sexuality, an Asian office cleaner who runs an illegal cock-fighting ring, plus a shifty employer who promises her husband a new job in Paris to shut him up, will the book ever be finished on time? Will it be published at all?
TO CATCH A SNAIL
Emma Pickford’s life of trainspotting and telemarketing addiction takes a turn for the worse when her Vietnam Vet husband Stan suddenly dies, and Emma reluctantly inherits his marijuana crop.
Her next-floor neighbour, a little person, a mad fortune teller and her stuffed poodle, a retired transvestite, and an ex-circus ringmaster all join in the fun of turning Emma’s life into a mad caper.
This is a play that mixes the Molièresque comical and the theatre of the absurd. It will tickle your funny bone!
“Daniel Soler’s witty, fast-paced comedy To Catch a Snail is reminiscent of the kind of vaudevillian entertainment performed by Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keyton. From start to finish, Soler’s play never misses a beat. Indeed, I read it in one sitting and the characters veritably jumped off the page and into my living room!” Kathryn Pentecost, Theatre Upstairs, Balmian; Met Theatre Katoomba; writer for artshub.com.
“Take a motley crew of dysfunctional characters with a variety of ethnic backgrounds and questionable proclivities, accelerate them through the Large Hadron Collider of a dadaistic playwright’s brain, and watch them generate the “Godot Particle”. In his two-act play, To Catch a Snail, Daniel Soler applies the long tradition of absurdist farce – from Molière, Labiche and Feydeau to Ionesco, Becket and Pinter – to the inherently tragi-comic reality of suburban Australia. The result is hilarious!” Professor P. Zeebra
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