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György SpiróCAPTIVITY (novel excerpt)
Uri recalled almost nothing about being
dragged away for the first time—only the smell
of chicken droppings, his father placing him on
his shoulders and carrying him long distances,
which felt so good that he would dream about
it even now, at the age of seventeen. In his
dream, he wished he would wake up to see
his father standing above him, saying “Come
on, my boy, hop on my shoulders again.”