The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander

Author:Nathan Englander
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Human rights, Literary, Jews, Jewish, American First Novelists, Fiction, Fiction - General, Disappeared persons, Historical, American Historical Fiction, Argentina, Disappeared persons - Argentina, Argentina - History - 1955-1983, Human rights - Argentina, Missing children
ISBN: 9780375704444
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: 2008-04-01T07:00:00+00:00

[ Twenty-seven ]

THE CRY WAS SO STRONG, Kaddish sprinted down the hall to meet it. He found Lillian in the bathroom with the bandage in her hand. It was clear from the side as he stared at his wife in profile, clear before she turned to face him head on.

Again Lillian screamed with despair and, when she said it, Kaddish only nodded. What was there to do but agree? How else to respond when Lillian said, “I’m beautiful!”

Mazursky had done a magnificent job by Mazursky’s standards. The swelling and the black eyes did little to hide it. Lillian was transformed. Transformed, and even in Kaddish’s imaginings he’d never pictured this. He’d thought so always but now, to look at her, Lillian was right. She was nothing short of beautiful.

“Murder,” Lillian said, her old nose gone, Pato missing from the mirror. “To change a face it is murder.”

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