Аннотация
Anthony Marra
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
To my parents and sister
It was of this death that I was reminded by the crushed thistle in the midst of the plowed field.
— Leo Tolstoy, Hadji MurádTHE FIRST AND SECOND DAYS
CHAPTER 1
ON THE MORNING after the Feds burned down her house and took her father, Havaa woke from dreams of sea anemones. While the girl dressed, Akhmed, who hadn’t slept at all, paced outside the bedroom door, watching the sky brighten on the other side of the window glass; the rising sun had never before made him feel late. When she emerged from the bedroom, looking older than her eight years, he took her suitcase and she followed him out the front door. He had led the girl to the middle of the street before he raised his eyes to what had been her house. “Havaa, we should go,” he said, but neither moved.
The snow softened around their boots as they stared across the street to the wide patch of flatt...
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