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Best known for his thoughtful, semi-documentary films, Cozarinsky here turns his hand to a collection of short stories. The result is every bit as captivating as his first such compilation, Urban Voodoo. Themes from his native Argentina run powerfully through the tales, although the settings also take in Lisbon, Vienna, Budapest and Odessa. The worlds he creates are turbulent and nostalgic, the settings both before and after the Second World War. Cozarinsky's characters are all travellers through troubled lives, looking outside themselves for something they can never quite capture. There is the pianist in a Buenos Aires nightclub who finds himself drawn to pre-war Germany, a Jew who travels to Lisbon to unravel the mystery of his grandparents' wartime affair, and the young man who meets a clinging woman on the eve of his wedding. The stories are thought-provoking and talk of a people whose South American homeland can never quite compensate for the European culture they have lost. (Kirkus UK)
