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THE NIGHT LANGUAGE
Readers of literary historical novels will delight in Rocklin’s description of British royalty at the turn of the nineteenth century, and its explorations of identity and class relations.
Loosely based on the relationship between Queen Victoria and young Prince Alamayehu of Abyssinia (now Ethiopia), THE NIGHT LANGUAGE tells the story Alamayou’s fostering by the Queen as an orphan of war to live at Windsor Castle, along with Philip Layard.
A young apprentice to a doctor on the battlefield in Abyssinia, Philip is deemed Alamayou’s guardian because he’s the only one who can communicate with him, through hand gestures. The two form a deep friendship, and through Philip’s and Alamayou's eyes, we see the internal workings of Windsor Castle, from the hierarchies within the servants’ quarters, to the interrelations between the staff and the royals, and most fascinating of all—how both the royalty and the staff deal with two young black men living under their historic roof for several months.
Accused by Parliament of having murdered his own mother and being a deviant, Alamayou is sentenced to be returned to Abyssinia, where he will be executed. The Queen and royals don’t believe he has committed such atrocities and struggle to find a way to clear his name and prevent his execution, to no avail…or so they think. But who was it who really boarded the ship to Abyssinia and was executed, as all the newspapers had reported? And what would happen if Parliament learned that Alaymayou was indeed alive for all these years, and their ruling had been circumvented?
David Rocklin is a business mediator at Rocklin Conflict Resolution and is appointed to the LA Superior Court ADR Panel. He was previously an attorney in the Enforcement Division of the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, and he graduated from Chicago-Kent School of Law. He lives in California with his wife and two children and is at work on his next novel.
A young apprentice to a doctor on the battlefield in Abyssinia, Philip is deemed Alamayou’s guardian because he’s the only one who can communicate with him, through hand gestures. The two form a deep friendship, and through Philip’s and Alamayou's eyes, we see the internal workings of Windsor Castle, from the hierarchies within the servants’ quarters, to the interrelations between the staff and the royals, and most fascinating of all—how both the royalty and the staff deal with two young black men living under their historic roof for several months.
Accused by Parliament of having murdered his own mother and being a deviant, Alamayou is sentenced to be returned to Abyssinia, where he will be executed. The Queen and royals don’t believe he has committed such atrocities and struggle to find a way to clear his name and prevent his execution, to no avail…or so they think. But who was it who really boarded the ship to Abyssinia and was executed, as all the newspapers had reported? And what would happen if Parliament learned that Alaymayou was indeed alive for all these years, and their ruling had been circumvented?
David Rocklin is a business mediator at Rocklin Conflict Resolution and is appointed to the LA Superior Court ADR Panel. He was previously an attorney in the Enforcement Division of the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, and he graduated from Chicago-Kent School of Law. He lives in California with his wife and two children and is at work on his next novel.
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Published 2017-11-01 by Rare Bird Books |