Micro-Story from Hebrew:
“This is a very short history of my grandfather, Arkady. His last words to my grandmother (I cannot prove that this is a true story), on the stretcher on the way to the ambulance, were, “I love you.” The aperture of time closes in on him in ’83, two years after he arrived in his new country. Four years earlier, in Leningrad, he took me to a market where it was possible to trade books that were forbidden to everyone for meat that was only forbidden to us. He smoked more than I smoked. He read more than I read. I remember less and less about him. His imagination was full of lions.”
by Alex Epstein, translated from the Hebrew by Becka Mara McKay
Originally published at Guernica
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