Because all I had read were books in which characters were foreign, I had become convinced that books by their very nature had to have foreigners in them and had to be about things with which I could not personally identify.
Da alles, was ich gelesen hatte, Bücher waren, in denen die Personen Ausländer waren, war ich überzeugt, dass Bücher, von Natur aus, Ausländer enthalten mussten. Und sie mussten von Dingen handeln, mit denen ich mich nicht identifizieren konnte.