Stay Down Old Abram

From two short stories and fragments of others comprising basically an outline by the author grows a masterpiece--after 14-months a most lucid novel perhaps the best account of a cross-cultural form of intolerance in historical-fiction in a long time. Based on actual events <i>Stay Down Old Abram</i> the author paints two streets one white one black--in this tragic game where moods and friction bring out the roots of deeply idealistic rejection and suppressed tendencies all embedded in the narrative.</p> <p>One might even conclude this story is not all that much different than what took place in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison outside of Baghdad recently although in a thinner angle: yet in both cases we see undisciplined soldiers working in sensitive spots. The time and place is West Germany mid-l970's.</p> <p>By Rosa Peñaloza</p><p>Translator Writer</p> <p>I had read some of Dennis Siluk's books and I liked them very much the stories and topics touched in each one. I could say that reading them they carry you inside the story and you begin to dream and dream as if you were part of the story.</p> <p>Nancy De Valencia</p><p>English Teacher</p>