Childhood in the World - My University - Translation - Classics Library 050

Author: Maxim Gorky
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: In a dim and small room, on the floor beneath the window, lay my father. He was dressed in white, his body unusually long, his bare toes strangely spread apart. His dear hands lay quietly on his chest, fingers curled. Two dark copper coins were pressed tightly over his joyful eyes, his kind face had turned black, and his teeth showed unpleasantly. It terrified me. My mother, half-naked, wearing a red dress, knelt there, using the black comb I used to play with when slicing watermelon rinds, brushing my father's long, soft hair from his forehead to the back of his head. My mother kept saying something, her voice low and hoarse, her gray eyes swollen, as if melting, shedding large drops of tears...