The Good Catch

Adam Biro

1998

Kohn practiced an important profession, the most important after that of God. He was arranging life. […]

[…] And from what does this personage, second only to God, live? He is given a part of the dowry. That’s why he likes to fix up the poor with the rich. If he only united the rich among themselves, he would lose half his income.

One day, Kohn…

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Adam Biro

b. 1941

Adam Biro is a French novelist, short story writer, playwright, and publisher, born in Budapest. In 1956 he left for Geneva, worked as an art editor, settled in France, and founded the art-book publishing house Biro Éditeur in Paris.

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