THOUGHTS BEFORE SAILING

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. SETTLING IN 1
4. MOVING APART 2
5. DEAD HUSBAND'S BIRTHDAY 4
6. CANCER PATIENT 5
7. SUMMER HOUSE 7
8. ON THE DAY OF BOB MARLEY'S DYING 8
9. RIO 9
10. TO SEA 10
11. Too many hands 11
12. DEMIS UNDER GLASS 12
13. FORCED LABOUR 13
14. WORDS OF THE MISTRESS, LOVED BUT PUT ASIDE FOR THE WIFE'S SAKE 15
15. MAIL ORDER FILIPINO BRIDE 16
16. FREE WORLD LIVING 17
17. WINTER BURIAL ON A HILLTOP 18
18. FROM A WICKER CHAIR IN THE IMPALA HOTEL, BANGKOK 19
19. BARBADOS 20
20. COLONIALS 21
21. OUT OF HONDURAS, SOMEWHERE IN DARKNESS 22
22. TRAVELLED 24
23. YOU TO WHOM I GAVE TOO MUCH 25
24. AND NOW THE INITIAL CONTACT 26
25. ONE BY ONE THE LEAVES WILL FALL 27
26. TO A WANDERER 28
27. KNOWING THE AFTERMATH 29
28. MILITARY MONOLOGUE 30
29. FROM PROBOLINGGO ALL THE WAY TO HELL 32
30. MATROS 33
31. TOGETHERNESS 34
32. THE PILOT GROWN RESPECTABLE 35
33. REUNION 36
34. NIGHT IN ST MICHAEL 37
35. HOU'GAN 38
36. TRYIN AGAIN 39
37. SPITESTOWN 40
38. EASTER FRIDAY 41
39. THE ONLY LINES I WILL EVER ADDRESS TO MY MOTHER 42
40. DEATH REACHES THE DESERT 43
41. I PRAYED FOR YOU 44
42. OUR DREAM WAS A GLASS BALCONY 45
43. I WEAR YOUR RING ALWAYS 46
44. COMMUNIST NEWLY WIDOWED 47
45. GUNUNG MERAPI 48
46. TO A TERRORIST HUSBAND, JAVA 49
47. TO A FIRST-BORN SON 50
48. PAST PRESENT 51
49. TO AN OLD OLD LADY WHO FINALLY DIED 52
50. RECITAL 53
51. RECITAL 54
52. SEPTEMBER 56
53. KERKHOF 57
54. HUISTOE 58
55. ALWAYS THE AFTERMATH 59
56. THE MAN FROM SENEGAL 60
57. WELFARE STATE 61
58. RETREAT 62
59. SPRING 64
60. THROUGH SILENCE 65
61. POSTER 66
62. MUSING IN ACHINSK 68
63. LENIN IN HIS TOMB 69
64. THOUGHTS BEFORE SAILING 70
65. VALERA a sequence
66. THIS TOUCH WILL SUFFICE 71
67. ALL PORTS ARE THE SAME 74
68. AMERICA IS THE COUNTRY I LEAST WANT TO VISIT 75
69. FORBIDDEN LOVE IS SWEETER 76
70. ONCE AGAIN WE HAD TO GO 77
71. YOU ALONE KNOW MY FRAILTIES 78
72. I HATED THIS CITY 79
73. WE LAUGH AT GRANDPARENTS' PHOTOGRAPHS 80
74. IT'S TOO LATE 81
75. WE WERE NOT ANONYMOUS ENOUGH 82
76. HALF A LIFE AGO 83
77. THE ARMENIAN EXPEDITION FOR COMBATING HAIL 84