Childhood In the World My University (Translation from the Famous Works Library) 050

Author: Maxim Gorky (Russia), translated by An Le and Gu Shengen
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: In a dim and small room, on the floor just below the window, lay my father. He was dressed in white, with an unusually long body. His bare toes were strangely spread apart, and his dear hands lay quietly flat on his chest, fingers curled. Two dark copper coins were pressed tightly over his joyful eyes, and his kind face had turned black, his teeth showing unpleasantly, which made me afraid. My mother, half-naked, wore a red dress and knelt there, using the black comb I usually used to shave watermelon rinds, combing my father's long and 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, as if melting, shedding large drops of tears....