Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Book of Not
"What I wanted was to get away. But the moon was too far beyond, and there were white bits under me, where the flesh was shredded off and the bone gleamed that famed ivory, and those below cowered and, if they were not quick enough, were spattered in blood. Then came the jolt, as of a fall, and I saw the leg was caught in an ungainly way in the smaller branches of a mutamba tree, the foot hooked, long like that infamous fruit."
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"What I wanted was to get away. But the moon was too far beyond, and there were white bits under me, where the flesh was shredded off and the bone gleamed that famed ivory, and those below cowered and, if they were not quick enough, were spattered in blood. Then came the jolt, as of a fall, and I saw the leg was caught in an ungainly way in the smaller branches of a mutamba tree, the foot hooked, long like that infamous fruit."
"ما أردته كان الفرار. لكن القمر كان أبعد منالًا، وكانت تحتي قطع بيضاء، حيث تمزق اللحم وبدت العظام تلمع بذلك العاج الشهير، وكان من هم في الأسفل ينكمشون رعبًا، وإن لم يكونوا سريعين بما يكفي، تلطخوا بالدماء. ثم جاءت الهزة، كأنها سقطة، ورأيت الساق عالقة بطريقة غير متناسقة في الأغصان الصغيرة لشجرة الموتامبا، والقدم معقوفة، طويلة كأنها تلك الفاكهة سيئة السمعة."
Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Book of Not
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