Jakov Lind, 'a Viennese-born Dutchman turned Israeli with an Austrian passport, Eastern European parents and a complete infatuation with English', spent the last two years of the war living in the open country, in Germany. Later, in London, he proceeded to write (in German) the volume of stories and two novels on which his stature as a major European writer is based: Soul of Wood, Landscape in Concrete and Ergo.
In the seventies, Lind began writing in English; the stories in The Stove were his first in the new language.
In the seventies, Lind began writing in English; the stories in The Stove were his first in the new language.