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Название книги: Life & Times Of Michael K
Автор(ы): J. Coetzee
Жанр: Современная проза
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Life-_-Times-Of-Michael-K-185765.html
War is the father of all and king of all. Some he shows as gods, others as men. Some he makes slaves, and others free.
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THE FIRST THING THE MIDWIFE NOTICED ABOUT MICHAEL K when she helped him out of his mother into the world was that he had a hare lip. The lip curled like a snail's foot, the left nostril gaped. Obscuring the child for a moment from its mother, she prodded open the tiny bud of a mouth and was thankful to find the palate whole.To the mother she said: 'You should be happy, they bring luck to the household.' But from the first Anna K did not like the mouth that would not close and the living pink flesh it bared to her. She shivered to think of what had been growing in her all these months. The child could not suck from the breast and cried with hunger. She tried a bottle; when it could not suck from the bottle she fed it with a teaspoon, fretting with impatience when it coughed and spluttered and cried.'It will close up as he grows older,' the midwife promised. However
Название книги: Life & Times Of Michael K
Автор(ы): J. Coetzee
Жанр: Современная проза
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Life-_-Times-Of-Michael-K-185765.html
War is the father of all and king of all. Some he shows as gods, others as men. Some he makes slaves, and others free.
ONE
THE FIRST THING THE MIDWIFE NOTICED ABOUT MICHAEL K when she helped him out of his mother into the world was that he had a hare lip. The lip curled like a snail's foot, the left nostril gaped. Obscuring the child for a moment from its mother, she prodded open the tiny bud of a mouth and was thankful to find the palate whole.To the mother she said: 'You should be happy, they bring luck to the household.' But from the first Anna K did not like the mouth that would not close and the living pink flesh it bared to her. She shivered to think of what had been growing in her all these months. The child could not suck from the breast and cried with hunger. She tried a bottle; when it could not suck from the bottle she fed it with a teaspoon, fretting with impatience when it coughed and spluttered and cried.'It will close up as he grows older,' the midwife promised. However
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