Daniel Stein, Interpreter

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This world in which we have such difficulty living is filled with misunderstanding at every level. Within the family, parents and children often fail completely to hear each other. Between individuals teachers do not understand their pupils, neighbors do not understand their neighbors, cat lovers do not understand dog lovers. At the level of society the rich, as ever, do not understand the poor, the poor do not understand the penniless, and the police do not understand the homeless. To this we must add relations between states, ethnicities, and religions. The totality of this mutual misunderstanding and rejection breeds mistrust, fear, and aggression.

This book is devoted to a man who tried all his life to break down the wall of misunderstanding. The real-life hero, Brother Daniel, Oswald Rufeisen in the world, and Daniel Stein, the hero of this novel, are not the same person. Most of the novel’s characters are fictitious, at least in part. It is they who tell us about Brother Daniel Stein, and through them the personality is revealed of someone who throughout his life, consciously and consistently, worked to promote understanding and reconciliation.

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