Kamchatka by Marcelo Figueras

Author:Marcelo Figueras
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Published: 2010-09-05T16:00:00+00:00

‘When we’re born, we make noises, but we have to learn to speak.’

‘And to sing.’

‘Exactly. And to think.’

‘And to feel.’

‘Feeling is important,’ said Lucas.

By the time I’d thought about it, we had already done three laps.

We were coming back to the house. The music was deafening. Matt Monro singing: ‘can’t take my eyes off of you’ in terrible Spanish.

We went into the dining room, sweating, happy, to find papá and mamá dancing while the Midget pranced around between their legs. As soon as he saw me, he wanted me to dance with him and mamá asked Lucas to dance. But Lucas said no, no, no, his mouth full of bread, lapsing back into his usual awkwardness (dancing is something else you have to learn) while papá scratched his head, looking at the empty glass on the sideboard and said: ‘Che, who drank my wine?’

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