Maybe Even Happiness Amanda Dalton defiance and surrender

defiance and surrender

‘a very entertaining

Limestone is the epic poem of Barbados and a major development in an indigenous Caribbean poetics

It’s partly an instruction manual for dummies on how to hack out a kind of contentment in spite of the times

let alone one given to reading poems

Maybe Even Happiness Amanda Dalton defiance and surrenderIn this striking collection of short stories, written over a twenty year period, we find Buckstein, the storyteller, at his most lyrical. Having completed his works charting the Jewish history of his family and community in the Carpathian town of Sighet (The Trap, With an Unopened Umbrella in the Pouring Rain, The Fate of Yakkov Maggid, also published in English by Istros), his voice is here set free to explore the joys in the details of the everyday.