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Behind Veils |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / BOOKS FROM ABROAD |
| Author: Hanan Al-Shaykh |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 9/1/1991 |
| Size: 3,924 Words, 20,817 Characters |
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The Unseeing Eye
The old man stood there at a loss, his sunken eyes staring at the man seated behind the table. Raising his hand, he wiped the sweat from his forehead and heavily wrinkled face. He didn't use the traditional kerchief and headband though he could feel the sweat running down from his temples and neck, and he gave no reply to the man seated behind the table who went on asking him, "Why did you go in opening all the doors of the wards looking for your wife? Why didn't you come directly to Enquiries?" The old man kept silent. Why, though, was the man seated behind the table continuing to open one drawer after another? His eyes busy watching him, he said, "I came here the day before yesterday wanting the hospital and looking for the mother of my children."
The man sea...
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...ea. I felt sorry for her, for her knees that knelt on the cruelly hard pavement, for her tattooed hands that lay on the dirt. I looked at her again and saw the passers-by staring at her. For the first time her black dress looked shabby to me. I felt how far removed we were from these passers-by, from this street, this city, this sea. I approached her and she again put her weight on my hand. vbcrlf
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