The scope of "Thirst" keeps expanding with each story: Here Kalfus deftly executes a realistic depiction of the vacillations of a young husband contemplating adultery with his wife's close friend, there he's spinning a Borges-like fable about a tribe of refugees who have been on the road so long their nomadism has evolved into a culture of its own.
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