It was a postcard that led me to the center of the world. “Tatiana. Needs a lawyer” was scribbled in pencil on the back of a photo of Errol Flynn taken from an old pirate movie. Underneath was the address of the detention center where she was being held. I reached the village at 9 […]
Alain Berenboom
ALAIN BERENBOOM is a law professor (specializing in literary copyright) and the prize-winning author of some twenty novels and short story collections. On his website, Berenboom describes himself as follows: “Born in Brussels to a father who came from a little village near Warsaw and a mother born in Vilnius (under Russian rule), Alain Berenboom became a Belgian writer of the French language by chance (due to the disorder of 20th Century Europe).” Although “The Center of the World” is fiction, it is easy to imagine the writer, himself an attorney and the son of immigrants, empathizing both with the main characters of his story.
