Too Great a Sky - Liliana Corobca fretting instead about their ‘daughter’

fretting instead about their ‘daughter’ – a loud little dog – and worrying constantly

they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold

Translator: Virginia Jewiss

he finds that among the familiar faces there is now a stranger - the enigmatic Mustafa Sa'eed

Marquez and Cortazar

Too Great a Sky - Liliana Corobca fretting instead about their ‘daughter’Ana is eleven when the Soviet soldiers send her from Bukovina, Romania, to Kazakhstan. She is just one of many forced to leave behind her home and make the three week long journey via freight train. The trip is a harsh, humiliating one, but in spite of the cold and the closeness of death, life persists in the train wagon in the form of storytelling, riddles, and ritual. Years later, Ana recalls her childhood for her great granddaughter, who is