Small Boat - Vincent Delecroix Translator: E

Translator: E

in his words

in which he turns his skills of psychological observation and black comedy to subjects as diverse as the tyranny of serfdom

well-to-do young Ramla is torn from her true love and wed to a manipulative older man

These stories from the middle period of Chekhov's career include - influenced by his own experiences as a doctor - Ward No

Small Boat - Vincent Delecroix Translator: EIn November 2021, an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the United Kingdom capsized in the Channel causing the death of 27 people on board. Despite receiving numerous calls for help, the French authorities wrongly told the migrants they were in British waters and had to call the British authorities for help. By the time rescue vessels arrived on the scene, all but two of the migrants had died. The narrator of Delecroixs fictional