دانلود رمان انگلیسی “آشنایی‌زدایی کردن”

It was a Sunday in October and Sunny had been feverish all day. In the morning, she came loping into her parents’ room, confused, then spent the afternoon lying on the couch. She sat up at twelve, and again at dinnertime, to vomit a watery stream. Sunny was three and lived on the fifth floor of a build-for-rent apartment block – a nice one, with hundreds of windows. That Sunday her parents, Lena and Odhran, took advantage of the relative peace to read newspapers and make adult conversation. But around seven o’clock, when darkness had come and the ambient mundanity of Monday loomed, they became afraid. The cough she’d had for days seemed suddenly wetter and worse. ‘A&E,’ Lena said. ‘Do we think it’s that bad?’ ‘Probably not, but the out-of-hours clinic is chaos.’ ‘Chaos,’ Odhran agreed. Odhran brought the car around and Lena waited on the pavement outside their block with Sunny, standing under a drumming umbrella. There was little traffic and the units they passed – a churning laundrette, an off-licence with a light pulsing over the door – seemed to represent bleaker versions of life in the city; stakes they did not subscribe to personally. Odhran turned in the front and asked, phatically since they’d discussed it already, ‘James’s or Temple Street?’ ‘Oh James’s,’ Lena replied from the back seat. ‘Stay on this side of the river.’ Odhran was thirty-eight, and Lena thirty-four. Sunny was their only child. Her plush face, hot and framed by clammy curls, lay against the side of her bumper seat. Lena pressed her hand across the brow and felt captive heat.