Söndags-smakbit # 16

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Jag läser Deep as the sky, red as the sea av Rita Chang-Eppig
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Smakbit sid. 28
“The workings of the small two-masted junk were simple enough to master. From her brother she learned to rig the sail, from her father the art of twisting rope. When the catch was bad, they hungered together, when the catch was good, they tossed everything they wouldn´t be able to sell into a large cracked pot that was being held together by the crew´s collective force of will and then fought over the cooked fish heads.”

sid 97
“They moved the hostages to the part of the fort that had been used to imprison locals. Though many years had passed since the Europeans last used it, the cell still reeked of excrement and blood. The stone walls looked like misaligned, rotted teeth, mold stuck in the cracks like bits of food, Into this room they crammed the Dutch officers.The hostages received som dirty water and gritty rice. “