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The Silence and the Roar
Nihad Sirees
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Description for The Silence and the Roar
Paperback. With The Silence and the Roar, Nihad Sirees writes a powerful, life-affirming and Kafkaesque novel about a censored writer trying to live a normal life under a Middle Eastern dictatorship, Syria. Translator(s): Weiss, Max. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 13. Weight in Grams: 174.
With The Silence and the Roar, Nihad Sirees writes a powerful, life-affirming and Kafkaesque novel about a censored writer trying to live a normal life under a Middle Eastern dictatorship, Syria. Fathi, a writer no longer permitted to write, makes his way through a city churned by parades for an unnamed dictator. It is a day stifled by heat and the noise of the chants, a day of people trampled, and of the brutality and bullying of the party faithful. But Fathi presses treacherously against the crowd, attempting just to visit his mother and his girlfriend. The ... Read more
With The Silence and the Roar, Nihad Sirees writes a powerful, life-affirming and Kafkaesque novel about a censored writer trying to live a normal life under a Middle Eastern dictatorship, Syria. Fathi, a writer no longer permitted to write, makes his way through a city churned by parades for an unnamed dictator. It is a day stifled by heat and the noise of the chants, a day of people trampled, and of the brutality and bullying of the party faithful. But Fathi presses treacherously against the crowd, attempting just to visit his mother and his girlfriend. The ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908968296
SKU
V9781908968296
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About Nihad Sirees
Nihad Sirees was born in Aleppo, Syria in 1950. After training and working as an engineer, he became an acclaimed novelist, playwright and screenwriter. After finding himself under increasing surveillance and pressure from the Syrian government, in 2012 he left for Egypt and now lives and works in exile. The Silence and the Roar was first published in Arabic, in ... Read more
Reviews for The Silence and the Roar
Profound and topical ... a chilling portrait of a people whose lives are dominated by fear
Lucy Popescu Independent on Sunday An excellent novel ... while The Silence and the Roar is a slender novel, it is far from slight
Malcolm Forbes The National The theatre of the absurd that is everyday life in a totalitarian society is ... Read more
Lucy Popescu Independent on Sunday An excellent novel ... while The Silence and the Roar is a slender novel, it is far from slight
Malcolm Forbes The National The theatre of the absurd that is everyday life in a totalitarian society is ... Read more