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The Wolf Hunt
by
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

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The Wolf Hunt
translated from Hebrew by Sondra Silverston

Copyright © 2021 by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
English translation copyright © 2021 by Sondra Silverston and Kein & Aber AG
originally published in Israel as Relocation

Part One

Relocation
5 A mother once told me that the world is divided into two kinds of children: Those who choose to learn karate and those who choose to learn chess.

Topic:

Two kinds

15 He knew that, like a bulimic who shoves a finger down her throat to vomit, his mother shoved a finger down the throat of political correctness until the bile rose.
Part Two

Mexico
37

[...] “So you think we have to give up ideology? What does that actually mean?”

“Look at what’s happening here in America. People come to Silicon Valley to get rich. The nation, politics—they put everything aside in order to make money. And the world moves forward because of that. [...] Think about how the world would look if instead of Israeli and Arab, there were simply Amazon engineers, Apple programmers, people who weren’t defined by color or gender, only by their performance rating.”

Uri sipped his wine quietly. Then he said, “That scares me. Money is the most dangerous ideology there is. It holds nothing sacred and allows you to do anything.”

Topic:

Money

text checked (see note) Dec 2023

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