In this playfully designed dual-language edition, Rachel Shihor s stories published here for the first time in the original Hebrew appear alongside Ornan Rotem s English translation. Shihor offers a medley of aphorisms, flash fiction, and short stories, carving out a slice of a world in which Kafka would feel at home. The characters that inhabit this world reckless she-goats, morose fish, somnambulistic theologians, and poignant old ladies, not to mention dying dictators and dead poets have nothing in common save for the fact that they instruct us on the human condition.
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