Jean Francois Millet The Gleaners painting

Jean Francois Millet The Gleaners paintingJacques-Louis David Napoleon crossing the Alps paintingJoaquin Sorolla y Bastida Children on the Beach painting
ashes. Salahuddin could not remember when he had last touched his father's face this way, gently drawing the skin tight as the cordless shaver moved across it, and then stroking it to make sure it felt smooth. When he had finished he continued for a moment to run his fingers along Changez's cheeks. "Look at the old man," Nasreen said to Kasturba as they entered the room, "he can't take his eyes off his boy." Changez Chamchawala grinned an exhausted grin, revealing a mouth full of shattered teeth, flecked with spittle and crumbs. actual world of his study, the visionary world of dreams, and the approaching after-life as well (or so Salahuddin, in a fanciful moment, found himself imagining); -- then the son went to Changez's old bedroom for a rest. Grotesque heads in painted
When his father fell asleep again, after being forced by Kasturba and Nasreen to drink a small quantity of water, and gazed up at -- what? -- with his open, dreaming eyes, which could see into three worlds at once, the