Random Acts of Heroic Love is a semi-autobiographical debut novel by the author and actor Danny Scheinmann.

PropertyValue
dbpedia-owl:Book/country
dbpedia-owl:Book/coverArtist
dbpedia-owl:Book/isbn
  • 9780552774222
dbpedia-owl:Book/mediaType
dbpedia-owl:Book/pages
  • 432 (xsd:integer)
dbpedia-owl:Work/author
dbpedia-owl:Work/genre
dbpedia-owl:Work/language
dbpedia-owl:Work/publisher
dbpedia-owl:author
dbpedia-owl:country
dbpedia-owl:coverArtist
dbpedia-owl:genre
dbpedia-owl:isbn
  • 9780552774222
dbpedia-owl:language
dbpedia-owl:mediaType
dbpedia-owl:pages
  • 432 (xsd:integer)
dbpedia-owl:publisher
dbpprop:abstract
  • Random Acts of Heroic Love is a semi-autobiographical debut novel by the author and actor Danny Scheinmann. It follows the parallel stories of two unconsciously connected men in two different time eras motivated by the memory of love: Moritz Daniecki, a young Austro-Hungarian soldier captured by the Russians during the First World War and sent to a POW camp in Siberia, who decides to escape in 1917 and walk thousands of miles for the sake of his childhood sweetheart Lotte; and Leo Deakin, who loses his beloved girlfriend Eleni in a bus crash in Ecuador in 1992, and in his despair embarks on his own journey of discovery and self-reconciliation. The novel is based upon the true story of Scheinmann's grandfather Moshe, who too was an Austro-Hungarian soldier captured by the Russians, and undertook a three year journey back to Europe to be reunited with his lover, also called Lotte. Leo's grief and bereavement of Eleni also reflect the author's personal experiences when he lost his late girlfriend Stella in a similar bus crash in South America in 1992. The novel was nominated for the Galaxy British Book Awards in the 2008 reading list of the Richard and Judy Book Club. The author is also currently adapting the book for film.
dbpprop:author
dbpprop:country
dbpprop:coverArtist
  • Claire Ward
dbpprop:genre
dbpprop:imageCaption
  • Cover of UK hardback (Doubleday imprint)
dbpprop:isbn
  • 9780552774222
dbpprop:language
dbpprop:mediaType
  • Print
dbpprop:name
  • Random Acts of Heroic Love
dbpprop:pages
  • 432 (xsd:integer)
dbpprop:publisher
dbpprop:reference
dbpprop:releaseDate
  • 2007-01-01 00:00:00 (xsd:date)
dbpprop:wikiPageUsesTemplate
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Random Acts of Heroic Love is a semi-autobiographical debut novel by the author and actor Danny Scheinmann.
rdfs:label
  • Random Acts of Heroic Love
owl:sameAs
skos:subject
foaf:name
  • Random Acts of Heroic Love
foaf:page