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Argentina 7
Samanta Schweblin
Father Christmas Spends the Night
childhood - Christmas - divorce - funny - irony - plot twist

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France 24
atmospheric - female authors - love - melancholy

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Israel 13
Arab-Israeli - family - lovers - political - tragic love

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Spain 13
Jon Bilbao
The Lego Idol
dreams - Freudian - horror - Oedipal - parenthood

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Australia 9
Christos Tsiolkas
Genetic Material
father and son - Freudian - Oedipal - old age - psychological

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Malta 5
Pierre J. Mejlak
At Livia’s Bar
atmospheric - childhood - dreams - father and daughter

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

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Israel 10
Itamar Orlev
Retirement Home for War Heroes, Warsaw
Eastern Europe - father and son - history - old age - WWII

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Israel 4
Tahel Frosh
Richard Nixon, My Mother
mother and daughter - music - urban

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Israel 21
Nir Baram
Beit Hakerem. Jerusalem, 1985
Arab-Israeli - childhood - memories - political

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Denmark 4
Dorthe Nors
The Winter Garden
childhood - father and daughter - memories - psychological

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Egypt 26
Abd al Rahman Munif
The Open Door
classics - family - guilt - motherhood

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