New York Author Publishes New Book "The Past Is Never Dead"

"The Past Is Never Dead," a new book by Willard G. Oriol, has been released by RoseDog Books.

"The Past Is Never Dead" is a dramatic work of historical fiction centered in the Balkan country of Bulgaria. Its story is rooted in a true depiction of events that occurred in Bulgaria from 1939 to 1946.

The principals in this tale of the survival of 50,000 Bulgarian Jews in a country allied with Nazi Germany are both real and fictional.

This book unfolds the evolution of a young man's search and discovery of his dormant ethnic and religious identity.

About the Author:
Willard G. Oriol spent over five months as a consultant in three Eastern European countries, Bulgaria, Macedonia and Lithuania. He discovered the extraordinary background of his story on a trip to Sofia, Bulgaria in 1997.

Mr. Oriol, a retired Advertising and Public Relations Executive, has written several industrial films, three screenplays and over fifty TV commercials.

"The Past Is Never Dead" is a 242-page paperback with a retail price of $21.00. The ISBN is 978-1-4349-3241-9. It was published by RoseDog Books, an imprint of Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For more information, or to request a review copy, please go to our virtual pressroom at www.dorrancepressroom.com or our online bookstore at www.rosedogbookstore.com.