"What's your mother tongue?" he had asked her just now."Português", she had answered.
The o she pronounced surprisingly as a u, the rising, strangely constrained lightness of the é and the soft sh at the end came together in a melody that sounded much longer than it really was, and that he could have listened to all day long...
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Night train to Lisbon
Pascal Mercier
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