The Town with Acacia Trees

MIHAIL SEBASTIANMihail Sebastian was the pen-name of the Romanian writer Iosif Hechter. Born in the Danube port of Brăila, he died in a road accident in 1945. During the period between the wars he was well-known for his lyrical and ironic plays and for urbane psychological novels tinged with melancholy, as well as for his extraordinary literary essays. His novel For Two Thousand Years is a Penguin Modern Classic. GABI REIGHGabi 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 this novel. 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 and the novels of Mihail Sebastian. Gabi has also translated Sebastian's novel Women (Aurora Metro, 2020).