Translation Tuesday: seven micro stories by Alex Epstein
An intelligent mouse, a broken umbrella and Franz Kafka feature in tiny stories of love and hope translated from Hebrew
By Alex Epstein and Yardenne Greenspan for Translation Tuesdays by Asymptote, part of the Guardian Books Network
Hope
In the religion column the robot wrote: human.
Immigrants
It was an old spaceship with no windows (they couldn’t afford a new one). Before takeoff, they painted stars on the ceiling of their child’s bedroom.
