Night Train Montenegro It takes forever to get

It takes forever to get anything done

Laura Spinney demonstrates that the Spanish flu was as significant - if not more so - as two world wars in shaping the modern world

that investigates the causes of conflict between empires

She lets every note into her heart

Night Train Montenegro It takes forever to getGorgeously translated by Lydia Davis, the miniature stories of A. L. Snijders might concern a lost shoe, a visit with a bat, fears of travel, a dream of a man who has lost a glass eye: uniting them is their concision and their vivacity. Lydia Davis in her introduction delves into her fascination with the pleasures and challenges of translating from a language relatively new to her. She also extols Snijders's "straightforward approach to storytelling,