New Translation on Words Without Borders

Posted by Naomi Firestone

Words Without Borders’ translation of Eduardo Halfon’s “The Polish Boxer”–translated from the Spanish by Ezra Fitz:

69752. That it was his phone number. That it was tattooed there, on his left forearm, so he wouldn’t forget it. That’s what my grandfather told me. And that’s what I grew up believing. In the seventies, the country’s phone numbers were all five digits.

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