The only thing I can recall is that it rained all day and all night, and that when I asked my father whether heaven was crying, he couldn't bring himself to reply. Six years later my mother's absence remained in the air around us, a deafening silence that I had not yet learned to stifle with words.
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About Carlos Ruiz Zafn
Carlos Ruiz Zafn.
Themes
- Death — Contemplations on mortality, loss, and the legacy we leave