Long Summer Nights by Aharon Appelfeld

Author:Aharon Appelfeld
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781609808990
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2019-09-19T18:00:00+00:00

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Yanek prepared supper. Grandpa Sergei praised the bread and vegetables, and he added what he occasionally used to say, “A person isn’t alone in the world.”

Yanek was frightened. Since he wrestled with the boys, he feared that his strength would fail him in the next trial. Grandpa Sergei says that everything flows from within. If the mission is clear and just, a person’s strength is redoubled, and God adds to it.

Grandpa Sergei drank his tea and puffed on his pipe for a long time, and at last he said, “Yanek, my dear, please read me the first psalm in the Book of Psalms. But please be gracious and read it very slowly, so that I can absorb the words and the melody.”

“Grandpa Sergei, don’t you understand the words of the psalms?”

“I’ve already told you that I don’t understand. There’s no reason to understand prayer. You just have to pray.”

Yanek doesn’t stop training. His body had filled out in the last month, and he looked older than his age. In his dreams he’s at home, next to his father and mother. Sometimes it seems to him that his parents haven’t changed. Only he has changed. They observe him and are surprised by the change that has taken place in him.

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