When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them. (Etgar Keret)

When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.

Etgar Keret

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