A new translation of the best and most provocative short stories by the author of Transit and The Seventh Cross. Best known for the antifascist novel The Seventh Cross and the existential thriller Transit Anna Seghers was also a gifted writer of short fiction. The stories she wrote throughout her life reflect her political activism as well as her deep engagement with myth they are also some of her most formally experimental work. This selection of Segherss best stories written between 1925 and