Dina Rubina. The Last Boar from the Pontevedra Forests

"One of the common Levantine proverbs sounds rather melancholy: 'Your fate is wrapped around your neck.' I don't much like to go into details about what this land means to me. Any honest writer treats his country like a beloved whore from whom he cannot bear to part. I am no exception, but, besides all my other absurd attachments, I have Jerusalem here. Here is Jerusalem, a city tall, deep, three-dimensional—a royal dervish, a hidden myth layered over thousands of years—and that is enough—for me."
D. Rubina.