By Simon Cleary
A father, a son, and the bridge that divides them... 1939 As a burgeoning urban emerges from its panorama, so too does a bridge that may remodel it from a sleepy kingdom city. 3 younger males paintings at the development of this iconic metal bridge. Labouring excessive above the river in risky stipulations, shut bonds advance among them. yet one slip can - and does - adjust their lives ceaselessly. A iteration later, Robbie, a tender landscaper, grapples along with his tricky dating together with his father, whose previous is inextricably associated with the recognized cantilevered bridge. Robbie can also be scuffling with to save lots of his destiny along with his female friend Freya, after a violent attack through a stranger sends her spiralling into herself. the relaxation of Figs is the engrossing tale of the delivery of a urban and the weight of a kin mystery. Its legacy is 2 monuments - certainly one of nature and one in every of engineering - either one of them unforgettable.
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25 Three E ach morning he leaves her. He slides from the bed they now share and dresses quietly in the dark. Then he tiptoes out of the house in his thick socks, sits on the front steps, pulls on his boots, and enters the day before it has yet become solid. Aloneness. Solitude. Singularity. He thinks about the way he is, the way he has become. About his relationship to things, to the world, to people, to women. Growing up an only child he’d wondered often enough, but he’d learnt there were competing theories, rival explanations, none of which seemed to allow each other.
When I was a young girl I packed a bag and put on my warmest clothes. I took all the money from my bank account, and hitchhiked across the country . . I wasn’t scared, because my parents were travellers – we were used to it. And I knew that people were generous. That they’d feed me and drive me a little further along the way, or arrange lifts with people they knew who were travelling that way. ’ She remembers long journeys with her parents in their Kombi van. South, for days on end, for weeks, a flight from winter.
Robbie, sitting with them, plays with the stubble on his jaw. He thinks of his own year and compares it with theirs, measures it in the trees he has planted. Especially his private plantings, one a day. His city tangibly greater by three hundred and sixty-five figs. He looks upon them. They slouch at the hoop-pine table, drinking, listening to the low murmur of protest songs, till eventually the music begins to mock them. ‘Let’s go,’ Bec says suddenly, standing from the table. ‘The fireworks,’ someone else suggests.