Slow Boats to China by Gavin Young

Slow Boats to China by Gavin Young

Author:Gavin Young [Young, Gavin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780571324460
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 2015-09-24T04:00:00+00:00


A sketch of a sailing ship like the ones I’d seen in the harbour was printed in blue under the lettering.

The basic contents of Mr Missier’s headquarters were whitewashed walls, a single overhead fan, two wall calendars, a tiny safe, a filing cabinet, three tables and six people, one of them a teaboy. There were other objects, of course: his desk, covered in black leatherette with a ziggurat of torn files; an umbrella hanging from the top of the plastic curtain over the bottom half of a window with rusty bars. The window opened outwards, and a large crow perched on the frame, cawing loudly. One of the clerks poked at it every now and then with the umbrella, and it flew off, returning a moment later to continue its cawing.



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