The Village Indian by Abbas Khider

Author:Abbas Khider [Khider, Abbas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Persian Gulf, Politics, Refugees
ISBN: 9780857421296
Google: Y_JLuwEACAAJ
Publisher: Seagull Books
Published: 2013-07-14T23:00:00+00:00

An answer to this rhetorical question would have been superfluous. I continued to look at the town without a word. I’d heard a lot about it. War, literature and art, mourning, pretty women, murderers and homeless gods from other countries—like the artists and poets and singers and whores who, in the seventies, wrote their common history on the streets of this wonderful town. I thought for a moment about leaping over the harbour wall and staying in Beirut. It would have been easy. The wall was low and the police were busy with the ships and their passengers. In the end, I chose not to. I’d heard that you couldn’t get a residence permit here without knowing someone in a political party. ‘And that’s not the right thing for me, is it?’

The ship sailed on. A few days later, we finally landed in Izmir. I didn’t want to stay so I left that same day for Istanbul. At the bus station in Izmir, I said goodbye to Hewe. ‘The world is small, my friend!’ he said, convinced we’d meet again.

We never did. That’s how it goes. On such a long journey, you get to know not only people and towns and a new life but also the mysteries of the world’s secret soundscape. Hewe, the Russian, her long queue could all well have been part of that soundscape.

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