The Trap Tahar Ben Jelloun

The Trap Tahar Ben JellounThe Trap & The Rag Doll are two novellas by the Romanian writer Ludovic Bruckstein, that have remained undiscovered for many years. Both narratives are concerned with extraordinary stories of survival and struggle within the multicultural Transylvanian region during the time of Nazi occupation. The Trap is the story of Ernest, a young Jewish student from Sighet, who went into hiding in the mountains surrounding the town, when anti Semitic persecutions

Donít hang about

this vast expanse is crisscrossed with ocean and wind currents

but also indicate how we might live better in the living world

In the 10 years of Over the Edge

despite his early death in Burma

it is an experiment in bringing the perspective and authority of a particular text directly to bear on a modern problem

They ‘sip the brine of loss: proof that I have lived’

The Admirations (1989) which won the Oregon Book Award

and winner of the Patrick White Literary Award

Richard Morrison

In poems that are at once formally alert and alive to the possibilities of new departure

Tomorrow Jon will be nine