Childhood in the World - My University - Translation - Famous Works Library (050)

Author: Maxim Gorky
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: In a dim and narrow room, on the floor just below the window, lay my father. He was dressed in white, his body unusually long, his bare toes oddly spread out. His dear hands lay quietly on his chest, fingers curled; two dark copper coins were pressed tightly over his cheerful eyes. His kind face had turned black, his teeth showing unpleasantly, which frightened me. My mother, half-naked and 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 swelled up, melting as they dripped large, heavy tears....