Nine Suitcases
Béla Zsolt
1947
These nocturnal passenger trains in wartime have their own peculiar sounds. The deportation wagons have a way of screeching, like an eagle or a vulture—whereas this kind of train whines and groans as if beseeching, then grinds its teeth in furious impotence, not so much like a beast of burden but like an overburdened man bent double, whose heart…
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