Chernobyl Strawberries by Vesna Goldsworthy

Author:Vesna Goldsworthy [Goldsworthy, Vesna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781908524485
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press

Simon and I took a late-night flight back to Belgrade, accompanied by a scattering of communist politicians on their way to more of the countless meetings which presaged the collapse of Yugoslavia. Petar stayed on in Macedonia. The little Yalta I engineered failed to bear fruit. They were both sensitive and stubborn, and neither was likely to change his mind. The Englishman – like a frustrated district commissioner – wanted to put the world to rights; the Serb felt his grievance too deeply to be able to be philosophical about it. We were talking about his land after all. Besides, the Englishman got the girl, and that did not necessarily make things any easier.

An almost empty plane flew low above the mountains in near-total darkness. There were villages below, lit only by the stars. When we began to descend towards Belgrade, which shimmered like a small heap of crushed ice above its two rivers, I was glad that this holiday was over.

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