The New Confessions by William Boyd

Author:William Boyd
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780307787095
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2011-03-30T04:00:00+00:00

Monika visited me at my villa once or twice a week during the rest of that summer. We would make love and have lunch. After lunch she liked to sunbathe naked in the back garden, a policy I encouraged as this was the view overlooked by my study window. She returned to Berlin in the afternoon as the air cooled. That was as much as we ever did. Her thin, hot, oily brown body with small, oddly deflated-looking breasts are inescapably associated with the genesis of my Confessions films. I grew to like her and I think she liked me, though we never spoke of our feelings. Perhaps that was why she came back. She had half a dozen scars, old and new, on her belly. I counted an appendectomy and a cesarean section, but I could not work out what the others were. I asked her how she got them.

“Too many men, darling,” she said. “Too many men.”

One day Aram came round unexpectedly while she was there. He had returned from the U.S.A. and Frederick the Great was about to start. He did not seem particularly surprised to see Monika. We stood at my study window looking at her spread body, glossy with sun oil.

“I’ve got nothing against Monika,” he said thoughtfully. “But for a man in your position I think it’s a big mistake to get involved with an actress.”

“I’m not involved with her,” I said. “Don’t worry.”

I looked at him. He was wearing a powder-blue seersucker suit—bought in America, I assumed—a red shirt and a big fat canvas golfing cap. He looked ridiculous.

“Anyway,” I said, “what are you doing here? You know this is my secret refuge.”

“My father’s dying. He wants to see you.”

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