Christmas Nuances - a compilation of Christmas tales

The end of another year about to arrive, a festive atmosphere, already well-known aromas of the long-awaited supper, the piles of presents at the foot of the beautiful and lighted Christmas tree, children singing the typical Christmas songs, waiting anxiously for the good old Santa. ..a situation described so impersonally, but to which you, reader, could for sure relate - or which at least brought you some memory. Is this, however, the true meaning of Christmas?

This Christmas compilation contains:

- the white Christmas of a frosty 1980's Germany
- the unknown past of an immigrant from World War II
- the advent Calendar of a girl of light
- unlucky end-of-the-year surprises
- old endings and new beginnings
- moments of epiphany
- and finally love. Love for the different nuances of life reflected in eight Christmas tales.

"For love is knowing the sun and moon and still yearn for the eclipse," he replied. She would not understand him at the time, but years later, when she remembered the Old Man and the spoken words, she would say that never in her life had she heard anything as sensible as that phrase...