Description: Thrown off the train for not having a ticket, Mona finds herself, alone, in a rural town at night. Although she is fashionably dressed, she has no money and nowhere to stay. Fortunately, the local schoolteacher, Marin, invites her to stay at his home while he sleeps over at a friend's place.
Brief description: Reigh's translations and fiction have been published in Modern Poetry in Translation World Literature Today and The Fortnightly Review. She has won the Stephen Spender prize for poetry in translation and was shortlisted for the Tom-Gallon Society of Authors short story award. She was also awarded a PEN Translates Award for translation of The Town with Acacia Trees (Aurora Metro, 2019) by Sebastian. She is currently engaged in a translation project called 'Interbellum Series, ' focusing on works from the Romanian interwar period, including the poetry of Lucian Blaga.