Peace on Earth. Gordon Stevens
Читать онлайн.| Название | Peace on Earth |
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| Автор произведения | Gordon Stevens |
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| isbn | 9780008219369 |
GORDON STEVENS
Peace on Earth
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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First published in Great Britain by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd 1987
Copyright © Gordon Stevens 1987, 1997
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Ebook Edition © SEPTEMBER 2016 ISBN: 9780008219369
Version: 2016-11-03
For Emily and Joe, who do not know.
And Souraya and Dyala, and the family
in the photograph, who do.
Peace on Earth describes situations and events in the mid-1980s. Since then, some things have changed. The Soviet Union, for example, no longer exists.
Sadly, other things remain the same.
CONTENTS
The boys were nine, almost ten.
They sat on the rock, the man beside them, watching the sun rise over the valley of the Jordan, the sweep of light spreading from the east and the shadows of the night disappearing.
‘When will you tell us the story?’ they asked.
‘What story?’ replied the man.
He remembered the morning he had sat on the rock and waited, the morning he had sat on the rock and wished he had never been born, the morning he had sat on the rock and wished they had never set him free.
‘The story that began with a verse from a poem.’
‘The story that began with a dream.’
‘The story that began with the family from the far-off land.’
They knew that he was playing