Turkish–English parallel text
Onuncu Mektup
The Tenth Letter
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A bilingual Turkish–English edition: the Turkish text with the English beside it, paragraph by paragraph.
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Teneke Kutu
The tin box
Giulia’yı mutfağa getiriyorum. Elena bornozla aşağı iniyor, ıslak beyaz elbiseyi görüyor ve hiçbir şey sormuyor. Çay yapıyor. Elena böyledir.
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.
“Onu en çok ihtiyacı olan kişiyle aç,” diyorum. “Giulia, bence o kişi sensin.”
“Open it with the person who needs it most,” I say. “Giulia, I think that is you.”
Kutuda eski bir hesap cüzdanı, altın bir kolye ve bir mektup var. Bana değil. Giulia’ya.
In the box there is an old bank book, a gold necklace and a letter. Not to me. To Giulia.
Titreyen bir sesle onu sesli okuyor.
She reads it out loud, with a shaking voice.
Giulia: “Sevgili Giulia, annen bana bankayı anlattı. Ferri ailesiyle savaşmak için çok yaşlıyım, ama param yaşlı değil. Parayı ona geri öde, sonra kalbin ne söylüyorsa onu söyle. 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 hesap cüzdanını açıyor. Sayıya bakıyor. Bir kez daha bakıyor.
Elena opens the bank book. She looks at the number. She looks again.
Elena: İki yüz üç bin avro. Kırk yıllık limonata, Tom. Kırk yıllık göl manzaralı odalar.
Elena: Two hundred and three thousand euros. Forty years of lemonade, Tom. Forty years of rooms with a view.
Giulia yüzünü ellerinin arasına alıyor ve ağlıyor. Ama bu başka türlü bir ağlama.
Giulia puts her face in her hands and cries. But it is a different kind of crying.
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