Sic Transit Wagon & Other Stories Moncef Mezghanni a discussion of the attraction

a discussion of the attraction between men and women against the stark background of wife-murder

Germany in 1953

the length of the metal rack

fearful of the flower’s drift before inhumane winds

Mahmoud Shukair’s first major publication in English translation enthralls

Sic Transit Wagon & Other Stories Moncef Mezghanni a discussion of the attractionThe stories in Sic Transit Wagon bring together a rich, evocative and authentic tapestry of Trinidad life, from the 1940s to the present day. We move from the all seeing naivety of a child narrator trying to make sense of the adult world, through the consciousness of the child become mother, to the mature perceptions of the older woman taking stock on all that has gone before. In the title story a playful pun on the Latin phrase on the glory of