Portuguese–English parallel text
O que realmente aconteceu
What Really Happened
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Por dentro, o Second Chance estava meio empacotado e muito frio. Livros estavam empilhados em caixas ao longo de uma parede; a mesinha tinha sido empurrada contra o fogão. Michael acendeu o fogão com um fósforo e um pouco de jornal. Durante alguns minutos nenhum deles disse nada, enquanto o fogo pegava e o barco começava a esquentar devagar. Ana notou que as mãos dele tremiam enquanto fazia isso.
Inside, the Second Chance was half packed and very cold. Books were stacked in boxes along one wall; the little table had been pushed against the stove. Michael lit the stove with a match and some newspaper, and for a few minutes neither of them said anything while the fire caught and the boat slowly began to warm up. Ana noticed that his hands shook while he did it.
Ele preparou duas canecas de chá e se sentou em frente a ela. Ele não olhou para ela. Olhou para a janela pequena, onde a cortina ainda não fechava direito, e para o canal escuro lá fora. Quando começou a falar, sua voz estava monótona e cuidadosa, como se ele tivesse praticado as palavras muitas vezes, mas nunca as tivesse dito em voz alta.
He made two mugs of tea and sat down opposite her. He did not look at her. He looked at the small window, where the curtain still did not quite close, and at the dark canal beyond it. When he began to speak, his voice was flat and careful, as if he had practised the words many times but never said them aloud.
“Você precisa entender como ele ficou depois que a minha mãe morreu”, disse ele. “As pessoas acham que o luto é chorar. Não é, não com homens como o meu pai. Ele só ficou em silêncio. Parou de cantar na cozinha. Parou de ir ao pub nas sextas-feiras. Ele trabalhava e dormia, e entre uma coisa e outra se sentava naquela mesa velha e encarava a parede.”
“You have to understand what he was like after my mother died,” he said. “People think grief is crying. It isn’t, not with men like my father. He just went quiet. He stopped singing in the kitchen. He stopped going to the pub on Fridays. He worked, and he slept, and in between he sat at that old table and stared at the wall.”
“Cerca de um ano depois do funeral, desci cedo uma manhã e encontrei uma garrafa de uísque no armário da farinha. Atrás dos sacos, onde ninguém olharia. Eu não disse nada. Achei que fosse só para as noites difíceis.” Ele girou devagar a caneca sobre a mesa, exatamente como o pai fazia. “Na época em que Jess nasceu, havia uma garrafa nova atrás da farinha toda semana.”
“About a year after the funeral, I came down early one morning and found a bottle of whisky in the flour cupboard. Behind the sacks, where nobody would look. I didn’t say anything. I thought it was just for the bad nights.” He turned his mug slowly round on the table, exactly the way his father did. “By the time Jess was born, there was a new bottle behind the flour every week.”
“Ele nunca bebia na frente de ninguém. Nunca na loja, nunca durante o dia. Bebia sozinho, à noite, na mesa da cozinha, entre meia-noite e três da manhã, antes de começar o pão. Karen sabia um pouco. Priya, acho eu, desconfiava. Ninguém dizia uma palavra. Em uma cidade pequena, você não fala. Você só compra o seu pão e olha para o outro lado.”
“He never drank in front of anyone. Never in the shop, never in the day. He drank alone, at night, at the kitchen table, between midnight and three, before he started the bread. Karen knew a little. Priya, I think, guessed. Nobody said a word. In a small town, you don’t. You just buy your bread and look the other way.”
Ana pensou na despensa, nos sacos de farinha à esquerda, na placa queimada escondida atrás deles. Pensou no chaveiro e na chave do armário da farinha entre elas. Ela não interrompeu.
Ana thought of the store room, the bags of flour on the left, the burnt sign hidden behind them. She thought of the ring of keys, and the key for the flour cupboard among them. She did not interrupt.
“A noite do incêndio foi em janeiro. Estava muito frio. Ele tinha ligado o forno por volta da uma da manhã para esquentá-lo para a primeira fornada de pão. Ele sempre fazia isso. Depois, sentou-se à mesa com a garrafa, como de costume. E, a certa altura, adormeceu com a cabeça sobre os braços.”
“The night of the fire was in January. It was very cold. He had turned the oven on at about one, to heat it up for the first bread. He always did that. Then he sat down at the table with his bottle, as usual. And at some point he fell asleep with his head on his arms.”
“Havia um pano pendurado na porta do forno. Um pano de algodão grosso, como o que você usa para as bandejas. Deve ter escorregado para o metal quente. Ao lado do forno, nas prateleiras velhas de madeira, guardávamos os sacos de papel. Centenas deles, dobrados e empilhados.” A boca dele se contorceu. “Sacos de papel. De todas as coisas para queimar.”
“There was a cloth hanging on the oven door. A thick cotton one, like the one you use for the trays. It must have slipped onto the hot metal. Next to the oven, on the old wooden shelves, we kept the paper bags. Hundreds of them, folded and stacked.” His mouth twisted. “Paper bags. Of all the things to burn.”
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