When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write.


The Collected Stories of Wolfgang Hildesheimer (ed. 1987)


When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and...

When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and...

When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and...

When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and...