Book Reading and Presentation,

with Australian writer Trevor Steele

“Reluctant Messiah” (novel) by Trevor Steele

Mondial, New York, September 2010, ISBN 9781595691736

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

6:30pm – 7.45pm

New York Public Library: Tompkins Square (see Google Maps)

331 East 10th Street, New York, NY 10009, phone: (212) 228-4747

This novel, based on a large amount of research, seeks to explore Jesus' actual life before he became an object of deification and falsification. It follows him from his humble birth, his gradual development of healing powers, his years as an Essene monk, his short campaign as a charismatic healer-preacher, to his ghastly death - and what happened after the death.

Every page is packed with details of life at that time, its intellectual currents and political developments.

This Jesus is an attractive human being who makes some mistakes, but inspires strong love and hatred.

The core text is the manuscript of Aurelius, an officer of the Roman army of occupation, who interviewed many people just a few years after the crucifixion and wrote this biography.

Australian author Trevor Steele (born in 1940) has published almost a dozen novels, collections of short stories, and travelogues, in English and Esperanto:

List of his works:
Reluctant Messiah (Novel, New York, 2010)
Death and Empire in the Tropics (Biographical Novel. Raleigh, 2006)
No Butterflies in Bergen-Belsen (Novel. London, 1998)
Remember and forget (Short stories. Vienna, 1995)
Kvazau' io dependus de mi (Novel. Anterpen, 2009)
Kaj staros tre alte... (Novel. Vienna, 2006)
Diverskolore (Short Stories. Kaliningrad, 2005)
La fotoalbumo (Novel in 2 Volumes. Vienna, 2001 and 2005)
Neniu ajn papilio (Novel. Vienna, 2000)
Australia Felix (Short Stories. Vienna, 1999)
Falantaj muroj (Short Stories. Vienna, 1997)
Apenau' papilioj en Bergen-Belsen (Novel. Vienna, 1994)
Memori kaj forgesi (Short Stories. Vienna, 1992)
Sed nur fragmento (Novel. Vienna, 1987)