The German Mujahid by Boualem Sansal

Author:Boualem Sansal
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Europa

Standing at the entrance to the estate, looking up at the tower blocks rising into the sky, I felt dizzy, I felt sick. My life as a recluse was over. I was like a convict finally released just as he realises he doesn’t want to get out because he knows that on the outside, with his friends and family, he’ll be a true outsider. I was terrified, I knew nothing would be like the way it was before, not me, not the estate. I knew I’d have to find somewhere else to live, I’d be a real exile, with no past, no future.

Books are heavy and, I tell you, walking up ten flights of stairs takes it out of you. The lift packed up so long ago people forget it’s even there. On the estate, we live like mountaineers, we climb up and toss a rope down to help the old folk stuck on the ledges. By the time I got to the tenth floor, I was practically crawling. I rang the doorbell, polite as I could. Aunt Sakina said, “Sit down, I’ll get you some coffee.” I set down the box and collapsed into a chair. Uncle Ali was sitting in his favourite chair, staring out the window, he was off in his head somewhere. It was nice, I realised, to come home, to be with your family, to see them getting on with life as though nothing had happened.

I opened Ophélie’s letter. There was a piece of card and . . . ten $100 bills. In God We Trust was printed on each one. I read the letter as I drank my coffee. I’d forgotten what it tasted like. Ophélie wrote:

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