Lie Under the Fig Trees [Paperback]

Tad Wojnicki (Author), Tadeusz Wojnicki (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 168 pages
• Publisher: E. R. Smallwood (January 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1881334333
• ISBN-13: 978-1881334330
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,821,082 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Lusty, Honest, Delicious Love Story, January 9, 2004

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Daniel Olivas (West Hills, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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Tadeusz Wojnicki's "Lie Under the Fig Trees" is a lusty, honest, delicious love story. Wojnicki's prose is pregnant with full-bodied descriptions of one man's quest to be with the woman he loves/lusts after. This slim novel bursts with the sounds, landscapes, smells and tastes of places like Poland, New York and Mexico and puts one in the mind of Hemingway and Steinbeck. This is a beautiful, sensual book that will make you smile and grimace all within a few moments. Love can make us act like fools, but how many of us would give up such a wild ride?

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lie Under the Fig Trees will awaken the senses., April 3, 2000

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Lisa Hannon (USA) - See all my reviews

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I read Fig Trees this morning...in one soaking. All of my senses are dangerously alive. I tasted it, smelled it, felt it, heard it, saw it...am consumed by it. It will be with me all the day and much longer I am sure. I've been craving sweet, sticky passionate fruits...of all sorts.. ever since. I need to sate this craving...with my own writing (along with a trip to the store for a bagful of oranges and bananas).

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a wonderfully written story of love and growth., September 22, 1999

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Kathy Villanueva ([e-mail]) (Leominster, Massachusetts) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lie Under the Fig Trees (Paperback)

I love every word, every page, every chapter of this book, but my favorite is chapter 24. Here's where Wojnicki so wonderfully shows his character realizing and confirming growth. Quoting from this chapter: "Her thighs, though bulky, earlier today seemed weightless. Now I get cramps. Her arms, though coiled around my neck tightly, felt yummy. Now, I get breathless."

"Besides, as she holds me, her body seems to me to be a body of some other woman. It feels different somehow. I noticed it earlier tonight. Her arms don't feel like her arms. They embraced Polo, maybe that's why."

"The heaviest object in the world is the body of the woman you have ceased to love, the Marquis de Vauvenargues said. I wonder if I have stopped loving her. I feel forced to suppress my doubt. Basic decency requires that I don't accept the obvious."

"By dawn I think I know why her body seems to me to be the body of some other woman--it's because I'm not the same man."

Such powerful lines of growth as it really does happen - through the subconcious! Wojnicki magnificently shows this growth and confirms it with words in the end. I remember the Polo incident, a previous chapter. I felt the hurt. I wondered how Teddy could be so cool about the whole situation. Wojnicki brilliantly only hinted at Teddy's feelings; he was letting them slip into his subconscious ... digesting them so to speak ... later they would surface; the force behind the growth. What more can I say ... I love the book! You will too!