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Christopher DeMorteau, author of Pellegrina, is the son of a mailwoman and a merchant navy mariner.

As a child, he met his father in ports across the world—Odessa, Aruba, Singapore—wherever the tanker came to dock.

Trained as a Light Infantry Scout, he went on to serve for two decades as an Army Legal Officer, with deployments in the Balkans, Afghanistan, and beyond.

After a brief period as an armed contractor, he joined the International Committee of the Red Cross, taking part in missions across Iraq, Nepal, Lebanon, Laos, West Africa, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and elsewhere.

​His academic work—particularly on the law of civil wars—has been widely cited, including in the Revised Commentary to the Geneva Conventions.

Today, he manages a law firm in G
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“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”
Charlie Chaplin
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Pellegrina" is by no means an "easy" read. It is a dense, cerebral novel that implicitly demands a nuanced understanding of philosophy and comparative religion, inviting the reader on a thorough and rigorous philosophical journey.

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Tom Quinn is starting Othello: Kept catching Othello references in other stuff so I figured I could use a refresher. Haven't read/seen this one since school.
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“After all my studies of the Divine—and of His most eloquent absence—I have come to suspect that Heaven bears a far stronger resemblance to a weathered beach bar in Bloody Bay, Jamaica, than to anything the eye of man, casting its searching rays outward into the world, has ever mistaken for eternity.”
Christopher DeMorteau, PELLEGRINA

“Nothing disappoints better than a good prayer.”
Christopher DeMorteau, PELLEGRINA

“Trust me;
the prodigal son ran away again before the candles of his feast had melted;
the meat of the fattened calf is still between his teeth.
And no one can blame him.”
Christopher DeMorteau, PELLEGRINA

“Nothing disappoints better than a good prayer.”
Christopher DeMorteau, PELLEGRINA

“Trust me;
the prodigal son ran away again before the candles of his feast had melted;
the meat of the fattened calf is still between his teeth.
And no one can blame him.”
Christopher DeMorteau, PELLEGRINA

“After all my studies of the Divine—and of His most eloquent absence—I have come to suspect that Heaven bears a far stronger resemblance to a weathered beach bar in Bloody Bay, Jamaica, than to anything the eye of man, casting its searching rays outward into the world, has ever mistaken for eternity.”
Christopher DeMorteau, PELLEGRINA

“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”
Charlie Chaplin

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