Arnon Grunberg

Breakdown

Donkey

Another day in sunny Afghanistan, another day with the German army – not far from the border with Tajikistan one of our vehicles broke down. The soldiers took it easy, there was no sense of immediate danger; perhaps there was no immediate danger. One of the Afghans, who was angry at us for closing the road for almost two hours, shouted: “Karzai is a donkey.”