As if he hasn’t slept in months. As if he hardly has the strength to keep his arms up any longer.
He lets his hands glide into his pockets and goes back home. But no sooner has he closed the door than someone starts banging on it again.
“They’re going to take Rune away from Anita,” says Parvaneh urgently,
snatching the front door open before Ove has even reached the handle.
“Pah,” Ove snorts tiredly. The resignation in his voice clearly takes both Parvaneh and Anita, who’s standing behind her, by surprise.
Maybe it also surprises Ove. He inhales quickly through his nose. Looks at Anita.
She’s grayer and more sunken than ever; her eyes are red, swollen.
“They say they’ll come and pick him up this week, and that I can’t manage to take care of him myself,” she says,
in a voice so fragile that it hardly manages to get past her lips.
“We have to do something!” cries Parvaneh, grabbing him. Ove snatches his arm back and avoids her eyes.
“Pah! They won’t come to get him for years and years.
This’ll go to appeal and then it’ll go through all the bureaucratic shit,” says Ove.
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