Название: Dreams of Water
Автор: Nada Jarrar Awar
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Книги о войне
isbn: 9780007547029
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She tears off the brown paper and stares at the painting.
‘This is the one you brought with you from Beirut, isn’t it?’
He nods.
‘I can’t take it from you, Salah.’
The painting has a narrow gilt frame. Beneath the glass, a wedge of beige cardboard in a rectangular shape surrounds a dark but indistinct figure whose edges trickle into the colours beyond it in bold upwards strokes of yellow, white and light brown. Through the blurriness of it, in the undetermined shapes that surround the figure in the painting, Aneesa sees a circle of wings: two, three or four, she cannot be sure, but feathery and marvellous nonetheless. She touches the angel through the glass with the tips of her fingers.
Salah reaches for her hand.
‘It would really make me happy if you took this with you, Aneesa. Please.’
‘I’ll think of you every time I look at it,’ she finally says.
She puts the painting down and takes his coat.
The windows are grimy and grey and the plaid coat she’s worn so often on their outings together is thrown on the floor in one corner of the room. Salah bends down, picks it up and looks at it for a moment before laying it neatly against the back of a chair. He looks up at Aneesa.
‘I shall miss you, my dear,’ he says quietly. ‘It won’t be the same without you here.’
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