‘You’ll be much more at ease! You’ll be a more interesting person,’ she said about my recent breakup. For a few months I didn’t sleep well. Budapest might be the town with the most ambulances and fire trucks flying by. It must be the most unfortunate metropolis in Europe. Every single siren woke me up. She said: ‘You look like you came from a concentration camp. Are you sure you’re not Jewish? You look Jewish. You should claim it. It would make you all the more interesting.’
– from The Moon in Foil by Zuska Kepplová, translated from the Slovak by Magdalena Mullek.
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