Chronicler of the Winds: A Novel by Henning Mankell

Author:Henning Mankell
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781595585592
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2006-04-25T04:00:00+00:00

On another night they visited the big white hotel which stood on a cliff above the sea. They sneaked in through a ventilation shaft which had its intake in the slope facing the sea. By climbing like monkeys onto each other’s shoulders they were able to reach it, and at last they found themselves inside the vast halls with marble floors and meter-high urns for flowers. They moved with great caution because the clerks at the front desk, the guards and sleepless guests were keeping vigil in the dimly lit halls. In the café with the soft easy chairs they gobbled up the pastries that were still in the gold-framed cooler counter. Here too they stole a shiny plaque posted between two columns in the great lobby to commemorate the day many years before when Dom Joaquim had dedicated the newly built hotel. Alfredo Bomba stuffed his dead lizard into the hollow where the plaque had been. Nelio carefully placed a pastry next to the lizard’s mouth before they slipped back through the ventilation shaft.

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