The Latin Student and Other Short Stories

From Andrea M. Fuchs Petzi comes this volume of seven short stories that will capture your heart. Here is a peek at some of the titles:

THE PENDULUM . . . a story that follows Elisabeth Möckel, a young teacher from East Prussia as she flees from the advancing Red Army at the end of the Second World War and becomes the mother of a Down Syndrome child at a time when there was little medical research;

LESSONS OF HISTORY . . .is about the painful experience of Eleonore, a talented student who comes in the crosshairs of a national socialist who has not learned his lesson;

THE LATIN STUDENT . . . a story about Tuscaloosa Hofmann, an unlikely student who discovers the joy of learning an ancient language;

PENTAMETERS . . tells the story of five high school students experiencing a certain degree of infatuation at the same time, da DUM da DUM da DUM.

SARTRE IN PRAGUE . . . relates the experiences of a class of high school students traveling to Prague in the late 1960s.

DOING GOOD . . . story about distrust and evil that is not what it seems.