Companions by Christina Hesselholdt

Author:Christina Hesselholdt [Christina Hesselholdt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781910695340
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Published: 2017-07-14T23:00:00+00:00

When she was most afraid (the cancer had moved to her bones, though she did not know that yet) she began to send round her furniture with removal vans, I think of it as the frantic circle dance withered leaves perform when trapped in a corner, in the wind’s embrace. Some furniture she sent (to their surprise) to friends, some she sent to me, and other pieces still were driven out to her summerhouse. I remember how surprised I was one October day when Charles and I were going to weekend at the summerhouse, and there was the table we had eaten at the previous day, in her flat, and her bed was there, and other pieces of furniture that belonged in other places suddenly revealed themselves. But that bookcase! But those chairs! Here! The removal men had forgotten to close the door behind them, and nature had trespassed, there were leaves and twigs on the carpet. I was confused, to put it mildly. And I began to sweep the new backdrop. Fear of death, that was what it was, in its pure and simple form. In turn she had, simultaneously, from an acquaintance who collected antique furniture, received seventeen chairs, and a sofa that had reportedly belonged to Admiral Gjedde. It had collapsed, as though the centuries had taken its breath away. And I found my mum in her flat, on the floor, in a sleeping bag, surrounded by all the chairs, and the deflated sofa, quiet observers of the bronze light that suddenly surrounded her, because everything about her was now bronze, her skin, her hair. She was admitted to hospital, and it turned out that the Crab had teamed up with the bones.

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