A Geometry of Snowflakes. This item is unavailable.A Geometry of Snowflakes

Part memoir, part fiction, A GEOMETRY OF SNOWFLAKES is a book of journeys taken, and journeys ahead.

A Writer journeys into present day western Ukraine, to witness the present, to experience the past of the Pale of Settlement in what was then Russia at the turn of the Twentieth Century. And too here is a journey into Czechoslovakia as the clouds of World War II begin to gather, when forgotten German documents in the basement of a suburban American house lead the same Writer into a search for a Kindertransport child placed on a train in Prague in 1939, never to see his parents again.

Two parallel stories intertwine in fact and in fiction to create a portrait of loss, of remembrance, of possibility.

In the act of bearing witness there is finally redemption. There is hope.

In 1909, a young man and his younger sister leave the Russian Pale of Settlement on a train from the present day city of Kovel. Behind them the life of their small shtetl disappears forever.

In 1939, a young five year old boy is placed on a Kindertransport train by his parents, bound for Scotland, before a door closes behind him. He will never see them again.

In 2018, in a suburban American basement, a Writer finds of forgotten box of documents mostly in German that in time will take him on an extraordinary journey into the past on the eve of World War II, as the world begins to change, when hate replaces hope.

And in 2025 that same Writer travels into Ukraine on a journey of places and people. A search for memories of the past. For the present world in a time of war. For self-knowledge. And perhaps for redemption.

A GEOMETRY OF SNOWFLAKES: imagine the past, live the present.

Author, screenwriter, former executive, Greg Dinner began his career in the Film and Television Industry in 1981, working as a film and television executive in Los Angeles and London. In 1992 he became a full time professional screenwriter. As an author Greg has published novels FRAGMENTS (2025), a sister novel A REQUIEM FOR HANIA (2022), inspired by a true story of the Warsaw Ghetto and a young Polish woman's search for identity in Poland decades later, in 2022. His other novels include A MURMURATION OF STARLINGS (2016) and NARCISSUS IN UTERO (2019), both part of his 'Shadow Wolf Chronicles' series inspired by the 'Shadow Wolf' television series he developed in Los Angeles. In 2024 he published his nonfiction WHISPERS OF GHOSTS: DAYS AND NIGHTS UKRAINE about time spent in Ukraine in 2024. All are published under the Ogham & Dabar Books imprint, a writers' publishing collective in Ireland.Greg Dinner began his film career as a studio executive in Los Angeles with stints at United Artists, MGM, Columbia and Tri Star Films, before moving to London in 1984. From 1996-99 he was appointed Head of Drama Development at RTE, Dublin, the Irish State Broadcaster from 1996-99. As a screenwriter in both film and television in the UK, US and Germany, his primary focus was on factually backdropped drama set in conflict zones, with an interest in politics, human rights and history. He has worked in the US, UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Norway, India, Italy and Brazil, as well as an executive and a visiting tutor. Greg Dinner is a member both of Irish PEN and San Miguel PEN, WGA, WGGB, BAFTA and a professional member of The Writer's Centre, Ireland. He is a professional advisor to the European Commission's CREATIVE MEDIA for media development and production finance. A dual Irish and US citizen, he now lives in the West of Ireland. Visit www.gregdinner.com