Jovan tried several times to explain to his wife who the man of the house is. She listened to him, nodding, but Jovan saw that his words passed by her and got lost somewhere in the distance. When he asked her to repeat what he had said, she couldn’t even open her mouth. She only stared and blinked until he hit her so hard that his hand hurt. Then she remembered some of his sentences, but not all of them.
Translated from the Serbian by Rumena Bužarovska
Edited by Maria Santiago