Winter 1968

by Trevor Steele

Mark Bryant, a young tutor in German, goes to Germany to experience the language outside academic circles. He almost unwillingly finds himself in a job looking after released prisoners of foreign descent who were all victims of Nazi cruelty during the war. The men are also damaged mentally, and some can be dangerous, as Mark will experience.

It is 1968, and tumultuous changes are taking place in Germany. Mark’s own conservative views are shaken up, and he also falls in love with a radical student.

333 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 31, 2018

About the author

Trevor Steele is an Australian Esperantist who has written numerous short stories and novels in Esperanto.

Steele's work is strongly influenced by his travel experiences in Germany, Western Europe and elsewhere, and is further enriched by experiences in Asia and Australia, mainly concerning indigenous people's problems, which were his concern during his year and a half of working at the Australian education department.

He wrote two important books about relationships between the indigenous and non-indigenous populations, Flugi kun kakatuoj (2010) — published in English as Soaring with cockatoos (2012) — and Paradizo ŝtelita (Paradise stolen, 2012). His autobiography, Konvinka kamuflaĵo ("Convincing camouflage"), was published in 2014.

From 2002-2004, Trevor Steele was Director General of the World Esperanto Organisation. Until 2010, he was an elected member of the Akademio de Esperanto, the independent body of language scholars who shepherd the evolution of the planned language Esperanto.