Sleep Has His House by Anna Kavan

Author:Anna Kavan
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 978-0-7206-1712-2
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers

WAS my mother afraid of the tigers? Was that the theme of the music she danced to with death in our quiet house?

When I went home between the school terms I was still alone in those rooms where nothing had altered. It was the same then as if I’d never been away. My mother’s sadness and boredom still lived in the house with the shadows and the grey rain on the windows. Their presence accompanied me as I took my unspoken questions from room to room.

Sometimes I had an impulse to ask my father about the things which perplexed me: I watched him and waited for the right time which never came. My father always seemed to be in a hurry. He was like an important stranger with no time to spare. He made decisions for me about practical things, he directed my life, and when he had done what was suitable he forgot me.

At school and at home it was the same; I was alone. This I accepted and knew it would always be so, wherever I went, and whatever happened to me. There was no place for me in the day world. My home was in darkness and my companions were shadows beckoning from a glass.

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