Old Men At Midnight

 Chaim Potok wrote Old Men At Midnight. This book was published in 2001. This book is a trio of stories that involve men telling their story to Ilana Davita Dinn. In the first story Ilana is 17 years old. She lives in New York City in the 1940's. She tutors a Polish man slightly younger than her in English. Her student is a survivor of the concentration camps. In the second story she is a graduate student escorting a guest lecturer. He tells her about his involvement as a soldier during the Russian Civil War and later as he worked as a KGB agent. In the last story, Ilana is middle aged. She buys a home next to a professor of war who is trying to write his memoir. I enjoyed the middle story the best. I found it odd that Ilana has no role in the stories other than being a listener.