The Distant Garden
Act I The pear tree in the study was not a tree, but a debt with roots. Gheorghe Popescu, twelve years old and sharp-eyed, stood in the doorway of the ruined room, his hand resting on the cold iron of a rusted pruning saw he had stolen from the barn. The air in the house was thick with the damp chill of the Balkan coast, a cold that seeped through the floorboards and settled in the joints,...
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