ABOUT THE AUTHOR

David Rozgonyi was born in the late fall of 1976 in Tripoli, Libya, to Hungarian immigrant parents. Travel and languages became a way of life as he backpacked across six continents, spending months among local residents in remote corners of the world, including China, Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, South America and India. Goat Trees: Tales from the Other Side of the World is David’s first collection of fiction.

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. . . .”

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

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