Book description
Stephen Henighan, a Romanian grammar book and hours of language tapes
under his belt, billets with a family as an English teacher in
Moldova, a country born from the dismantling of Romania during World
War II. As a Westerner in this "lost province" and former
Soviet republic, Henighan feels he's an unnerving disappointment for
many Moldovans, especially to the MTV-addicted, twenty-year-old Andrei.
Stephen Henighan is the author of four books of fiction, including
the novel The Places Where Names Vanish and the short-story
collection North of Tourism. His short fiction has been
published in more than thirty journals and anthologies in Canada,
Great Britain, Continental Europe, and the United States. Recently he
published the controversial When Words Deny the World: The
Reshaping of Canadian Writing. Henighan teaches Spanish-American
literature and culture at the University of Guelph in Ontario.
