Praise for Goat Trees: Tales from the Other Side of the World "Why
will GOAT TREES spark an interest where no other travel book will make
the cut? It provides a very lively survey of the best of Rozgonyi's
many years of travel in undeveloped nations. His stories are diverse,
exciting, and best of all - culturally revealing and fun, making GOAT
TREES a unique 'must' to any travel reader." — Diane C. Donovan; Editor, California Bookwatch
Selected Excerpts “Alex
took a sentry’s place on his balcony far above the darkening medina,
where night did not descend with grace. It overcame him there, a black
bag wiping the stars from the sky and falling like grief onto the old
city to suffocate the residents in the still air underneath, even as it
rocked them to sleep with false promises of coolness and calm. It left
the occupants gasping for breath on nights like this . . .
“.
. . He was awakened an hour before the sun by the muezzin in the
minaret of the small mosque below crying out in a hoarse and high
voice, sounding ancient and fearful of his god. Dozens of spires
pierced the endless sky—or was it hundreds, or thousands?—and from each
of these others joined the first in praise of Allah. Their strains
co-mingled and rose and fell in ominous discordance. Within this sound,
in that sprawling pit of rubble and humanity, Alex imagined old women
working their looms, young men hustling and older men sweeping cobbles,
others cutting hair and praying, all turning as one at the sound of the
callers, and streaming slowly and silently through nameless, unnamable
gaps between the leaning walls, the cuts of a knife, gouges across
pallid skin.
The muezzins cried out to God a song that to
Alex’s ears suddenly alerted the medina to the infidel who even now
eavesdropped on their sacred prayer, and Alex became unreasonably
afraid to move, to call attention to his sliver of balcony above those
still-dark alleys. . . .”
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