People of the Deer (2012)
“The Children After his first outpouring Franz became silent, speaking only in monosyllables and evading the questions that were constantly occurring to me. Perhaps he was ashamed of his outburst on the first night, as a sober man is ashamed of a drunken episode when he has revealed too much of himself to a stranger. Or perhaps he was engrossed only by the delayed arrival of his brother.
Each morning he left the cabin to climb the lookout hill near camp where he spent the hot hours of the sp...ring days staring over the rotting surface of the ice-covered bay to the southeast. Hans was long overdue. Earlier in the spring he had made a trip to the south end of Nueltin Lake, a hundred miles away, to rescue a winter cache which had been left on a little islet. Now Hans had only a scant few days in which to make his return, before the ice passed completely from the bay and dog travel would be no longer possible.
On the third morning of our vigil together it began to rain, and it rained as it did all things in this land—with overwhelming violence.MoreLess
Each morning he left the cabin to climb the lookout hill near camp where he spent the hot hours of the sp...ring days staring over the rotting surface of the ice-covered bay to the southeast. Hans was long overdue. Earlier in the spring he had made a trip to the south end of Nueltin Lake, a hundred miles away, to rescue a winter cache which had been left on a little islet. Now Hans had only a scant few days in which to make his return, before the ice passed completely from the bay and dog travel would be no longer possible.
On the third morning of our vigil together it began to rain, and it rained as it did all things in this land—with overwhelming violence.MoreLess
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