Morning Sea by Margaret Mazzantini

Author:Margaret Mazzantini
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Published: 2015-01-12T05:00:00+00:00

The day they left, Alí ran to the white arch in front of Angelina’s house. He waited for her a long time under the sun. Angelina was wearing her coat. He’d never seen her hair tied back so tight. Her father and mother were also wearing unseasonably heavy clothes. They’d put on everything they could. A form of protection. The weather had been interrupted; the seasons ahead were a jumble, confused like their layers of clothing. Alí thought they would sweat during their journey.

He would never again come with his father to deliver blocks of crude wax to the Italian candle workshop. His father wouldn’t stay to drink the freshly squeezed juice of Sicilian oranges with Antonio or to play dominoes beneath the fig branches. He wouldn’t wait again for Angelina’s legs to come leaping down the stairs, for her pointed face, her cruel green eyes. When she emerged from the shadows, from the smell of wax and cardamom, one leg appearing through the crack in the door, she’d look at him as if he were a cockroach that only sheer laziness kept her from crushing. Alí didn’t go into the candle workshop, just leant against the dusty body of the Ford, pretending to read.

Neither wanted to submit to the other.

When finally they’d start playing, it was already too late, already time for Alí and his father to go. They’d been stupid. He’d leave with an uncontainable wistfulness, a shout of injustice. They played together like no one else, as if they were one mouth singing, a single leg jumping. They were attuned to each other like birds on a single route. The same thoughts, the same movements.

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