The Unmapped Country: Stories and Fragments by Ann Quin

Author:Ann Quin [Quin, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Short Stories, Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9781911508144
Publisher: And Other Stories
Published: 2018-01-09T00:00:00+00:00

They walked on through the crowded streets, past stalls with many coloured ribbons, material. They were stared at. Surrounded when they decided to have their feet measured for sandals. The leather felt good, strong, yet light on her feet. But she was aware the women giggled as she walked by. Back in the hotel she took the sandals off. Soon she heard the priest’s voice, as if through a microphone, sounding similar to the ‘rainmaker’s’.

He had gone across to his studio, opposite the hotel. A large empty loft place he had rented with much haggling from a man whose face was covered in carbuncles. Who was always sat outside the doorway. Was his body covered in carbuncles? She shivered. Yet it was hot. Unbearably so. She found a shaded part on the balcony to read. Even reading proved difficult. She found herself looking down at those who came and went, or just squatted outside stores. Beggars who stood silently outside the hotel entrance, and waited until someone from the kitchen brought them something, a tortilla, something perhaps they themselves had left at lunchtime. Beggars that were very different from those in the cities. Their eyes alone asking, without demanding.

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