Portuguese–English parallel text
A décima carta
The Tenth Letter
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A bilingual Portuguese–English edition: the Portuguese text with the English beside it, paragraph by paragraph.
Opening the reader…
A lata
The tin box
Eu levo Giulia para a cozinha. Elena desce de roupão, vê o vestido branco molhado e não pergunta nada. Ela faz chá. A Elena é assim.
I bring Giulia into the kitchen. Elena comes down in her dressing gown, sees the wet white dress and doesn’t ask anything. She makes tea. That is Elena.
“Abre com a pessoa que mais precisa dela”, eu digo. “Giulia, acho que essa pessoa é você.”
“Open it with the person who needs it most,” I say. “Giulia, I think that is you.”
Na lata tem uma caderneta de poupança antiga, uma corrente de ouro e uma carta. Não para mim. Para a Giulia.
In the box there is an old bank book, a gold necklace and a letter. Not to me. To Giulia.
Ela lê em voz alta, com a voz trêmula.
She reads it out loud, with a shaking voice.
Giulia: “Querida Giulia, a sua mãe me contou sobre o banco. Eu estou velha demais para lutar contra os Ferri, mas o meu dinheiro não está. Paga ele, e depois fala o que o seu coração mandar. Rosa.”
Giulia: “Dear Giulia, your mother told me about the bank. I am too old to fight the Ferris, but my money is not. Pay him back, and then say what your heart says. Rosa.”
Elena abre a caderneta de poupança. Ela olha para o número. Ela olha de novo.
Elena opens the bank book. She looks at the number. She looks again.
Elena: Duzentos e três mil euros. Quarenta anos de limonada, Tom. Quarenta anos de quartos com vista para o lago.
Elena: Two hundred and three thousand euros. Forty years of lemonade, Tom. Forty years of rooms with a view.
Giulia coloca o rosto nas mãos e chora. Mas é um choro diferente.
Giulia puts her face in her hands and cries. But it is a different kind of crying.
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