Die biblioteek aan die einde van die wêreld. Etienne van Heerden

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СКАЧАТЬ leergierig met boeke. Stilletjies mekaar aan’t bekyk. Oop op haar skoot lê Paul French se Midnight in Peking, die storie van die moord op die Britse konsul se tienerdogter in 1937.

      Sy lees egter nie. Die herinnering aan die dringende fluisterstemme van haar pa en sy vriend, wat al sedert die Londen-dae saam met hulle kom. “Shanghai,” kon Thuli hoor.

      Shanghai. Die begin.

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      Die eerste keer dat sy Sello Tshwete gesien het, was hy daar in hul woonstel in Kensington as homself. Hy’t met daardie skuins skouertjie daar gestaan. Toe sy hom ’n uur later weer sien, was hy iemand anders. Die skouers was gelyk. Vir Thuli is dit een van die sterkste herinneringe uit haar kinderjare. Hierdie dubbelverskyning, die dubbelpersoonlikheid van Sello, sal sy altyd onthou, van toe af tot nou. Hy sal altyd vir haar twee mense wees. En sy sal haar altyd afvra: Watter Sello is nou hier op besoek by ons? Watter Sello kom by die voordeur in en maak mooi praatjies met haar ma en watter een gaan sit daar en knoei met haar pa in sy studeerkamer?

      Sello, eers skoongeskeer en homself. ’n Uur later, Sello met ’n baard, ’n brilletjie met ’n skilpaddopraam, ’n baret en pyp. Tweed. Thabo Mbeki-styl, sou mense later spot.

      Ja, haar pa het mos gesê dat as dit by vermomming kom, is jou ingesteldheid belangriker as ’n pruik. En hoe hy gesukkel het om Sello sy skewe skouer te laat regtrek voordat hy hom vermom in die Londense strate uitstuur.

      En ook haar pa, namate die whisky getrek en die ys al harder in sy glas gerinkel het, ook hy het stadig in sy tweede self verander. Hy ís nou daardie tweede self, het sy gedink, daar waar sy in haar skemer kamer lê, toe sy die sin hoor: “The Chinese are in.” En nog ’n iets: “Big ear.” Later sou sy in die e-posse op sy rekenaar sien dat dit inderdaad Big ear is. Maar nie as twee woorde gespel nie. Eerder: BigEar.

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      En toe het die res gevolg. Die sinne wat haar lewe verander het, en haar gebring het tot hier in die Franse Konsessie met sy nat bome en hierdie geheime boekwinkel, tot hier, met die kat op haar skoot, in hierdie bedrieglike boekerigheid, in hierdie huiswinkel met sy geur van brood en koffie.

      “Man, maar ons gaan eet!” het haar pa in die studeerkamer uitgeroep.

      Ja, van daardie dag af het haar pa skielik ’n nuwe sêding gehad, ’n nuwe gewoonte. Wanneer iemand met wie hy vertroud is hom bel en hy skerts oor die selfoon nadat die persoon hom klaarblyklik gevra het hoe dit met hom gaan: “Nee, ons eet, my maat. Ons eet.”

      Haar ma, haar immer bekommerde, versorgende ma, het dikwels in die maande voordat Thuli weg is, laat val: “Ek haat daardie frase.” Dan het Thuli se pa net geheimsinnig geglimlag. “Ek wil daardie frase uit my huis uit hê,” sou haar ma voortgegaan.

      “Wat’s daar vir aandete vandag?” het haar pa dan spottend die onderwerp verander.

      Nou sit sy hier.

      BigEar, dink sy.

      Ek is die ene ore.

      My ma. My arme, arme ma.

      En sy dink ook: Wag kom nie natuurlik vir my, Thuli Khumalo, nie. Ek wil daardie Chinese meisietjie agter die toonbank wat my nota geëet het, gaan wurg tot ek die naam uit haar kry!

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