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Er sah aus wie ein guyanischer oder trinidadischer Inder; er hatte etwas Afrikanisches, dachte ich, konnte aber auch direkt aus Indien sein.
He looked like a Guyanese or Trinidadian Indian—there was a touch of African ancestry in him, I guessed—though he could also have been directly from the Indian subcontinent itself.
Seine engsten Freunde, Bill Buford, Gillon Aitken und dessen amerikanischer Kollege Andrew Wylie, die guyanische Schriftstellerin Pauline Melville und seine Schwester Sameen, die ihm stets näher als irgendjemand sonst gestanden hatte, sie alle eröffneten ihm, dass sie Marianne nicht besonders mochten, was Freunde natürlich tun, wenn eine Ehe zerbricht, weshalb er sich sagte, dass er nicht jedes Wort auf die Goldwaage legen durfte.
His closest friends, Bill Buford, Gillon Aitken and his American colleague Andrew Wylie, the Guyanese actress and writer Pauline Melville, and his sister Sameen, who had always been closer to him than anyone else, had all begun to confess that they didn’t like her, which was what friends did when people were breaking up, of course, and so, he thought, some of that had to be discounted.
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