Trafika Europe 6 - Arabesque

György Spiró CAPTIVITY (novel excerpt) Uri recalled almost nothing about being dragged away for the first time—only the smell of chicken droppings, his father placing him on his shoulders and carrying him long distances, which felt so good that he would dream about it even now, at the age of seventeen. In his dream, he wished he would wake up to see his father standing above him, saying “Come on, my boy, hop on my shoulders again.”

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