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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20030817
Author:Robin Buss

Franz Kafka met Dora Diamant in July 1923, during a holiday on the Baltic, where he was staying with friends and she was working in the kitchen of a holiday camp for Jewish refugee children. He was just 40, she was 25 (though, because she would later lie about it, Kafka's biographers often put her age at 19). The attraction was immediate and mutual. He first spoke to her over the sink where she was gutting fish. "What bloody work for such tender hands," he said.

Their relationship would last less than a year; Kafka died on 3 June, 1924. But their love, for that brief time, was idyllic. As ...

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