“Childhood landscapes”

Abstract

Ronit Lentin was bom in Israel and has lived in Ireland for the past twenty-one years. Her recent novel, Night Train to Mother (published in Dublin by Attic Press, 1989, £5.95), is about an Israeli woman who returns to her mother’s birthplace in Rumania. She then tells the story of three generations of women in her mother’s family. An extract is printed below. © 1990, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.