The Tomato War and Theomachy

About the Book

The Tomato War and Theomachy is a tale of romance and history. Author Edmond Nicolas paints a portrait of life in Rasha, his small village that is located in the mountains of rural Lebanon. From there, he chronicles the yesteryears, tying together the repetitive effects of history and warfare in the Middle East. Nicolas moves through to 1975, when suddenly Lebanon was at war, and the Christian peoples were forced to defend their lives at the outskirts of their villages. They suffered and fought alone for their freedom against the same terror that the world witnessed on 9/11.

About the Author

Edmond Y Nicolas was born in Rasha, a small village in Mount Lebanon. In 1975, Nicolas was to enroll in law school when a savage war broke out in his homeland. He graduated from the faculty of law in 1984, while the vicious war for survival was still burning in his dreams and the dreams of his generation.

In 1987, Nicolas moved to America while the savage war continued in Lebanon. His aspirations to write about the war originated on the first day he settled in Austin, Texas. This was when he learned how much American people were sensitive to Hollywood dramas, yet remained ignorant of the real dramas that persist beyond their opened borders.

In 2003, Edmond Nicolas married Vida Kabkab in Nicosia, Cyprus. They live with A.J, their first-born son Andrew-Joseph, in Austin, Texas.