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It took more than thirty years for this motherfucking story to finally be translated into English | Fiction | Canned Soup

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"Zucker Sucker Motherfucker" is one of my earliest stories, and it was the first story that made me accept that some things I write in Hebrew simply don't work in other languages.  More than twenty years after I wrote it, Yaron Kaver, a talented translator, offered to give it a shot. I politely agreed, figuring it would be much easier to let him fail th…

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