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Manasseh

CHAPTER XX
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Those who had been wedding guests the day before now came as mourners to the house of the Adorjans.
The brothers were out on the mountainside.

Graves for the dead in Toroczko are hewn out of the solid rock, and the side of some bare cliff serves the people for a cemetery.

Here each family has a vault, which, as years pass, penetrates more and more deeply into the mountainside, until in many cases it becomes a veritable tunnel.

No name is carved over these vaults, and only the memory of the survivors serves to distinguish one tomb from another.

When a man dies, his relatives take it on themselves to hollow out his grave in the cliff.


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