Trafika Europe 7 - Ukrainian Prayer

Charles Pépin Joy (Novel Excerpts)

I have the impression that everyone is acting: the judges play the psychologist, my lawyer asks me questions he already knows the answer to, the prosecutor above the others with that red shawl on his shoulders. I am a willing participant. I tell things as they happened, I want to tell them as many times as necessary for them to be able to put a cost on my sentence. But spare me this stage play.

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