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69 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1961
It was seven-twenty when he finished winding the clock. Then he took the rooster into the kitchen, tied it to a leg of the stove, changed the water in the can, and put a handful of corn next to it. A group of children came in through a hole in the fence. They sat around the rooster, to watch it in silence.
‘You can’t eat hope,� the woman said.
‘You can’t eat it, but it sustains you,� the colonel replied.
„Am aşteptat cît a fost de aşteptat, îi spune soţia. Trebuie să aibă cineva o răbdare de bou, ca tine, ca să poată aştepta o scrisoare timp de cincisprezece ani�.