The Clothes On Their Backs by Linda Grant

Author:Linda Grant
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2008-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

‘By the way, what was Jim’s problem?’ Sándor said to Eunice, as we stood on the street waiting for a taxi. ‘Did you find out anything?’

‘Oh, poor Jim. It’s skinheads. They have started coming into his shop every day and throwing things around.’

‘What are skinheads?’

‘Bad boys.’

‘Why do they throw things around in his shop?’

‘Because they don’t like the coloured people.’

‘I know the type from back home, their heads are full of poisonous substances. Destroyed. What can we do for him?’

‘He needs a security guard, someone who will stand at the door and keep those bad boys out.’

‘Protection. Easy. I’ll call Mickey.’

‘I don’t like Mickey. Keep him out of it.’

‘How can you dislike that boy? He’s harmless, and my oldest friend here.’

‘He drags you down, Sándor, to his level. You could have been an important businessman without him, and respectable.’

‘Oh, Eunice, you don’t know about business. Come here, give me a kiss.’

I watched them. I saw her laugh, and turn her face to him, and the unspeakable tenderness with which he touched her lips. I don’t know how long we’d been there, my feet in my red lizard shoes were bloody, a ruby liquid seeped through on to my toenails and outlined them in red. The clouds were a painted rag in the sky over Paddington and the pale outline of the rising moon was visible between the buildings. We were a little past the longest day.

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