Happy Families: Stories by Carlos Fuentes; Edith Grossman
Author:Carlos Fuentes; Edith Grossman
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Families, Family, Short stories, Family Life, Short Stories (single author), General, Mexican, Fiction, Short Stories
ISBN: 9781400066889
Publisher: Random House of Canada
Published: 2008-09-23T00:20:17+00:00
Guy: A straight, slightly prognathous profile. Wavy hair, without the thin spots of age. Eyes that show interest in everything they see. He is sure he touched the sky one day.
José Luis: Round face. Pronounced baldness. Very large eyes, pools of a sharp, quiet intelligence. The despair of schemers. He never feels the need to challenge his companion. His rule is to avoid promiscuity. He would like to be located at the heart of a constellation.
Chorus of a Son of the Sea
the tip of the peninsula opens like the biggest fan in the world
the freezing distant pacific ocean crashes into the hot storms of sinaloa
displaying two hundred degrees of surf
Nicanor Tepa stands on the board waiting for the monster wave nine feet high
he takes it with audacity elegance reticence simplicity strength
always from the left
you never take a huge wave from the right
from the right the wave falls on the surfer crushes him drowns him
from the left Nicanor Tepa conquers the wave turns into wave
a vast white veil holds up Nicanor’s body
the white foam crowns his dark head
the tension of his muscles isn’t felt it is resolved with jubilation in his triumph over the
wave of blue crystal
it is august the great month for headlands in baja
in september Nicanor Tepa will travel to san onofre beach in california and its
forty kilometers of waves inviting him to tame them as if the sea were an
immense whale and the wave only the spout of the monster spewing sea spray
twenty-four meters into the air
in october Nicanor is in the burial ground of the freezing sea of Ireland in the bay of
Donegal and its waves of turbid green broken and enlarged by the barrier
reefs
and in december he’ll arrive in Hawaii to win the Triple Crown championship exposed
to the incessant hammering of the bay of Waimea and its waves thirty-six meters
high
Nicanor begins the new year on the peninsula of Guanacaste in Costa Rica and
in february goes down to Australia to the longest sandbar in the world where three gigantic
waves gather and explode and allow him to glide like a gull over
the heights of the sea
that hurls him at the end of the monsoon in Tahiti with its electrical storms
flashing into the sea where Nicanor conquers the most fearsome of all waves
the Teahupú
and now the wave shatters against the head of Nicanor who made a mistake taking it from
the right
and he comes to under a high-tension spiderweb in a hovel in the Capulín
district
and he tries to grasp the volcanic rock so he won’t drown in the marsh
and he wakes in his one-room windowless shack
and he’ll go out right away to see if he can catch what’s fallen from the trucks going to the
market
and he forms his pyramid of peanuts on the highway that goes to the airport
and looks without interest at the venders of gum plastic toys lottery tickets
hairpins
and tells himself in silence that if he were bolder he would clean windshields and even eat
fire at the crossroads
you have to eat fire to revive the six little brothers
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