In the cold night

a one- legged man who transforms a boring bus ride into a day at the races, an albino who simulates an eclipse or the sun, an old woman living on a rubbish heap who sees agolden moon in adiscarded button.a dying girl who turns the impersonal shroud-like white linen of the ward into aparadise of flowers and names and memories: such are some of the characters the reader wil encounter in this collection of short stories.