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 автор: multizvuk     добавлено: 10 марта, 13:51 © free

Им кажется, что все не так. Он - другой национальности. Он младше. Все смотрят. Даже в очень большом городе. Наконец, не смотрят? There's English translation available below.

THE CITY AGAINST ME. GLANCES

by Dmitry Travkin
     Natalya Yamschikova
     Sergey Korovin
     Ekaterina Prokudina
     Oksana Polyakova
     Alyona Kislitsina

I’m walking in an alien city and for the first time in four months I feel calm because people do not stare at me. And in Bishkek they don’t look. They regard you. They rivet eyes on me, then rivet eyes on him. Then they compare. Then they look about us. I wonder, what people think about me. Do they think it’s beautiful, or ugly?

When I saw such pairs before … it’s my first experience to go out with a guy of a different nationality, an Asian guy … and before that when I saw such pairs I was just interested: do they fit each other?.. It happened that we were riding a late trolley-bus with Ruslan, and there was a old woman there, an Asian woman… and I could tell from her glance that she was looking down nose at me, like I did something bad. I didn’t like that. I got really annoyed and glancing at her I blatantly took his hand and said: “Let’s go”. Just to show her that this guy had something to do with me, and she had guessed right.

In my Moscow SIM-card he’s listed as DARLING. For the first time in the four months of our friendship. In my own city I used to call him just by name – Ruslan.

Telephone conversation: Hello! – Can you hear me? – What’s the weather like there? – The wind is high in Moscow. – And here, it’s warm. Twenty above. – Do you study, as you promised? – Yes, I do. – Okay. Hugs and kisses. See you. – See you.

My relatives?.. Damn, I don’t want to tell the truth… Mother doesn’t like all this. Because of the age, since I’m ten years older than he. And the fact that he belongs to a different national culture… It’s not because she’s nationalist, but because she thinks – as does any person of her age – that we wouldn’t get along. Because of the mentality.

Every time I put balls on how people react at me, at him… maybe just at him, maybe at me. Actually, I did ask him, what do you think, do you look like an Asian or like a European? He said, I don’t understand why are you asking. – They stare at us in the street. – Oh, really? I didn’t know.
 

 

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