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Russia 34
communism - funny - history - satire - witty

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Spain 9
Jorge Ibargüengoitia
The Woman Who Wouldn’t
affair - femme fatale - funny - irony - manhood - witty

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Israel 16
Yonathan Raz Portugali
Notes from the Municipal Archives
epistolary - family - funny - witty

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UK 12
Ned Beauman
Light and Space
American culture - funny - suspense

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USA 9
Ray Bradbury
No News, or What Killed the Dog?
funny - introspective - pets - speculative

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Norway 23
Lars Saabye Christensen
The Envious Hairdresser
alienation - funny - loneliness - witty

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Mexico 16
funny - manhood - murder - nihilism - violence - working class

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UK 6
Saki
Esme
class-gap - classics - Great Britain - satire - witty

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Russia 5
Daniil Kharms
An Unexpected Bender | The Cashier
absurd - communism - funny - political - satire - Soviet Russia - witty

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Spain 4
Antonio Ortuño
Masculinity
funny - manhood - witty

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Mexico 9
Jorge F. Hernández
True Friendship
absurd - friendship - funny - loneliness - witty

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USA 14
Lucia Berlin
A Manual for Cleaning Women
American culture - class-gap - feminism - funny

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