Illywhacker (2010)

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Genres: Fiction
When I entered my room in the boarding house I was not expecting laughter. I had walked the passage shoeless, had not stopped on the way for so much as a pee or a flush, had unlocked my door quietly with The Book of Dragons tucked inside my Fair Isle jumper.
Inside my room, the door locked, a chair under the knob, I sat down on the bed to study. My hands could not hold it still. I stood and laid the volume on the dresser.
On each left—hand page were Chinese characters. On each right-hand page w
...ere words in English.
A white ant hatch erupted in the night and the winged creatures pushed their way through the insect wire and flooded hungrily around the light, abandoning their wings and crawling around the shining white reflecting surfaces of my sweating face.
I approached the book no less desperately: “It is my secrets of business which I fear you, my sons, have not yet understood. Therefore I write them down for you. Please attend.
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