The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray (2012)
“It is quite true that the small merchants at the market didn’t close their doors as a sign of mourning. In compensation, however, they immediately raised the price of the Bahian trinkets, straw bags, and clay statuettes that they sold to tourists, paying their homage to the dead man in that way. All about the market there were hurried consultations, something like emergency meetings, with people going back and forth. The news was in the air, going up on the Lacerda Elevator, traveling along on ...streetcars to Calçada, by bus to Feira de Santana. Lovely black Paula was breaking up in tears at her tapioca-cake stand. Water-Bray wouldn’t be coming by that afternoon to whisper his well-chosen come-ons to her, peeking into her ample breasts, propositioning her for wicked things, making her laugh.
On the skiffs with lowered sails the men of the realm of Iemanjá, bronzed sailors, were unable to hide their disappointed surprise: How could that death have taken place in a room in Tabuão? How could the old sailor have given up the ghost in a bed?MoreLess
On the skiffs with lowered sails the men of the realm of Iemanjá, bronzed sailors, were unable to hide their disappointed surprise: How could that death have taken place in a room in Tabuão? How could the old sailor have given up the ghost in a bed?MoreLess
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