He operated a store in the European quarter. Moldering with fatigue, oily and decrepit, he dreaded the slightest ray of light because of his eyes, which two years of uninterrupted baking under a tin roof, had dried out atrociously.
Almazen bat zeukan europarren auzoko erdian. Nekeak lizundua, lur-joa, koipatsua, argi guzien beldur zen, bere begiengatik, txaparen azpian bi urtez etengabe erretzen edukita ikaragarri idortu baitzitzaizkion.