Название: How's the Pain?: Shocking, hilarious and poignant noir
Автор: Pascal Garnier
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Контркультура
isbn: 9781908313300
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‘Vrai croco! My uncle kill it with his hands! Good price for you!’
‘Nein! Plastic, yes, animal killed, no.’
It was all getting too confusing. The trader wearily agreed to knock the price down, reluctantly admitting that the bag was indeed made of plastic, ‘but good plastic!’ The German woman left delighted with her purchase while the stallholder counted the banknotes, making a gesture to indicate that she must have a screw loose.
Further up, where the road opened out in front of the post office, two trucks stacked with tapes and CDs vied noisily with each other, belching out the voices of dead or obscure singers, accordion music, Algerian raï tunes, rock and local folk in a primordial cacophony. Other vehicles spewed hunting gear from their open flanks; everything from thick hand-knitted socks to deerstalkers, long johns, tartan shirts, sheepskin-lined gilets and the full range of combat trousers.
There were garments to tempt the ladies, too. Almost inconceivably large flesh-coloured knickers and bras hung from metal hoops, swaying among flirtily floral nylon blouses and other items from an era so remote that it was difficult to imagine any survivors still out shopping.
In front of one of these stalls, Simon felt a hand on his shoulder.
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