The Hiding Room Allison McVety and his work has appeared

and his work has appeared in scores of journals such as Ploughshares

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The Hiding Room Allison McVety and his work has appearedThe Hiding Room moves between Cairo and British Mandate Palestine in 1941, and Israel of 1991. In 1941 a reserved English officer falls for a waiflike Viennese Jew trying to flee to Palestine. He betrays her, then tries to save her from the consequences of his action. He too has to flee, at risk both from his fellow British soldiers and the Zionist underground. Fifty years on, at the height of the Intifada, the son of this brief partnership comes to