Scarlet Sails

Green thought through and wrote “Scarlet Sails amid death, hunger, and typhus. The light and calm strength of this book are beyond words, except for the ones Green himself chose. Suffice it to say that this is a story about a miracle two people performed for one another — and the writer, for all of us…

Green wrote “about storms, ships, love accepted and rejected, fate, the secret paths of the soul, and the meaning of chance.” In the features of his heroes there’s firmness and tenderness; the heroines’ names sound like music. In his books, Green created a romantic world of human happiness. “Scarlet Sails” is a trembling love poem, Green’s own way of “strange,” written passionately and sincerely — a book where the fairy tale of the scarlet sails becomes reality, a book “lit through, like by the morning sun,” suffused with love for life, for a youthful soul, and faith that in a surge toward happiness, a person is capable of creating miracles with their own hands…