Häftad, Engelska, 2009

Book Of Silence

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Beskrivning

After a noisy upbringing as one of six children, and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, Sara Maitland began to crave silence. Over the past five years, she has spent periods of silence in the Sinai Desert and the Australian bush and on the Isle of Skye. She interweaves these experiences with the history of silence told through fairy tale and myth, Western and Eastern religious traditions, the Enlightenment and psychoanalysis, up to the ambivalence towards silence in contemporary society. Maitland has built a hermitage on an isolated Scottish moor, and the book culminates powerfully with her experiences of silence in this new home.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2009-08-03
Mått: 131 x 197 x 22 mm
Vikt: 240 g
Format: Häftad
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 320
Förlag: Granta Books
ISBN: 9781847081513
Utmärkelser: Short-listed for Orwell Prize 2009 (UK)

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Sara Maitland is the author of numerous works of fiction, including the Somerset Maugham Award-winning Daughters of Jerusalem, and several non-fiction books about religion. Born in 1950, she studied at Oxford University and currently tutors on the Distance Learning MA in creative writing for Lancaster University.

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A Book of Silence grapples with ideas at the very heart of what it is to be human, and Sara Maitland is a joyous champion of the countercultural notion that silence is more than simply an absence of noise

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3/5 Jeanette A 2013-11-29
En bra och ingående undersökning av tystnad. Ändå inte fängslande av någon anledning. Inget driv i berättelsen. Inte så "andlig" som jag föreställt mig.