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Thirty-Five Years of Solitude | Fiction | Fresh Soup

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Etgar Keret
Aug 31, 2021
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I wrote “Nothing” during my compulsory military service, at the age of nineteen. It’s one of the first stories I ever wrote, and although I’ve always loved it, it hasn’t appeared in any of my English-language collections and would probably never have been translated if not for Yaron Kaver’s initiative. It’s strange to read something you wrote thirty-fiv…

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