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BOOK ONE
TODAY THE WEATHER DIDN’T fool me. The afternoon is perfectly…
THE THREE MEN WERE LEANING against one of the large…
BEFORE MY FATHER WENT TO the grave, the brothers came…
I THINK: PERHAPS SUFFERING is tossed by handfuls over the…
THEY REMAINED QUIET, THE three old men, for a long…
THROUGHOUT THE REST OF the summer, the brothers often passed…
AS THE JUST-ARRIVED SHEEP greedily ripped into the grass with…
YESTERDAY I HEARD A WAGON go by in the middle…
PEOPLE ARE A SMALL PART OF the world, and I…
WE WEREN’T IN TIME TO catch a ride with the…
BY THE FINGER THAT JOINS US, your death has entered…
JOSÉ’S SHEEPDOG WAS LYING down, neck raised, in a noble…
BOOK TWO
THE EARTH WAS ITS OWN SILENCE on fire. The sun…
THE MORNING ENTERED through the open windows, filling up the…
I DON’T REMEMBER FOR CERTAIN what other thoughts I had,…
THE APPRENTICE LEFT, SALOMÃO left, and Master Rafael kept running…
TONIGHT MY BODY DIDN’T ASK for sleep. I lay down…
IT WAS SATURDAY. NO ONE would dare say it, but…
IT WAS ONE OF MY WORK DAYS at the Mount…
MY HANDS. MY ARMS. THE SUN. I feel my arms…
DAWN. THE GRASS SLOWLY lifting. Rustling sounds from far away,…
I OPENED MY EYES. I HEARD the shouts on the…
HE LOOKED AT ME WITH A SERIOUS air. He ran…
AND THE WORLD ENDED. INEXPLICABLY, or without an explanation that…
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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