By Michal Ben-Naftali
A story about a teacher who writes about her high school English teacher, who killed herself some months after the narrator's graduation. Nobody new much about the teacher. She was there and not there. Not sharing her past and her life with her students. Not with words, anyway. It was the narrator's job to piece out what information she could find and invent the rest to tell the story of the teacher, treading carefully, not to offend the late teacher, claiming it's all fiction. The teacher grew up in Hungary and was sent to the ghetto during the war, when she was in her twenties. She was part of the rescue deal known as the Kastner Train. [English translation; 196 pp.]
