Bone Ash Sky (2013)
“Servants opened the door, faces composed and smiling, then looked at him properly, and the smiles immediately faded from their faces. One maid shrieked. Minas ran away.
He began running everywhere, more and more afraid of himself. He ran away from lumbering trams, afraid the roaring beasts were searching for him in order to finish off what the Turks began. He became lost in star-shaped streets, passing the American University and not stopping, intimidated by its neoclassical facade. A new French school beckoned, but it too looked innocent and pristine, and he felt unworthy of its hushed pallor, with his torn feet and now-ragged Bedouin robe. After a few hours, he was too tired to run any more. He lay supine again as he had in Damascus, safe in the shade of white streets softened by flowering trees.
That evening he found his way to the seashore, thinking to learn from the beggars on the Corniche how to cajole and whine. He sat on a low wall near the promenade; painted fishing boats beh...ind him jostled its smooth flank.MoreLess
He began running everywhere, more and more afraid of himself. He ran away from lumbering trams, afraid the roaring beasts were searching for him in order to finish off what the Turks began. He became lost in star-shaped streets, passing the American University and not stopping, intimidated by its neoclassical facade. A new French school beckoned, but it too looked innocent and pristine, and he felt unworthy of its hushed pallor, with his torn feet and now-ragged Bedouin robe. After a few hours, he was too tired to run any more. He lay supine again as he had in Damascus, safe in the shade of white streets softened by flowering trees.
That evening he found his way to the seashore, thinking to learn from the beggars on the Corniche how to cajole and whine. He sat on a low wall near the promenade; painted fishing boats beh...ind him jostled its smooth flank.MoreLess
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