Foreigners, Drunks and Babies

In this first collection of his imaginative fiction, Peter Robinson casts the slanting light of a poet's sensibility on the mundanities and absurdities of people's lives from a wide variety of different cultures and times; among others: the Imperial Academiy of an ancient Eastern empire, the musical education of a northern parish priest,hand-to-hand fighting with a classroom of Soviet teachers and the shadowy private life of a Cold War warrior.