Winter Sun

On a nine-day winter break in Tenerife, where nothing is quite good enough, Miki Lentin tries in vain to ask his ailing, elderly Irish Jewish father questions about their past before it's too late. The absurdity and hilarity of family holidays in the sun are brought to life in this sharp and fiercely honest novel that crosses borders from the narrator's home in Dublin to his grandmother's apartment in Israel, carrying the reader on a tide of childhood pain, a search for identity, history, and growth.

Miki Lentin took up writing while travelling the world with his family a few years ago. He completed an MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London, in 2020 and was a finalist in the 2020 Irish Novel Fair. He has been placed highly in competitions including Fish Publishing Short Memoir Prize 2020 and 2022, Brick Lane Bookshop New Short Stories 2022 and Leicester Writes, and published in Litro, MIR and other publications. His collection of short stories Inner Core, described as “…consistently enthralling...funny, moving and disturbing in equal measure,” was published by Afsana Press in 2022. For more information, visit: www.mikilentin.net/my-writing