burn between us
— C.
Elian read it twice.
He turned to the first page and read the opening paragraph — the Spanish writer's original, rendered into English — and then he closed the book and held it in both hands and looked at it with the expression he had when something was exactly right.
"Read it," Dante said.
Elian read the first paragraph aloud.
The prose was extraordinary — the Spanish writer's voice, whatever it had been in the original, coming through the English translation with complete integrity. Not translated-sounding. Not explained. Just there, in a different language, entirely itself.
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