Devastation of Silence - Paperback
by João Reis
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Open LetterISBN-13:9781948830638ISBN-10:1948830639UPC:9781948830638Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Humorous, World LiteratureBook Topic:Dark Humor, PortugalSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4Product ID:SC9A29M9S2
Like Louis-Ferdinand Céline meets Larry DavidThe nights were terrible, during the day we were occupied, but at night we got to thinking, picturing food, our houses, food again, painful memories from our childhoods--that abominable era--would mix with images of food and our torture would grow and grow, I recalled my impotence before the plate I was ordered to clean, the impossibility of choice in a world into which I had been thrust unwillingly, war was indeed an extension of the torture of being born . . .Set during the difficult era of the Great War, The Silence Devastation is the story of a captain in the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps who, with no documents showing his rank, finds himself in a German prison camp forced to share the circumstances of his poorer countrymen. He is hungry, constantly plagued by the sound of incessant detonations--and trying to finish his oral account of a strange story about a German scientist and voice recordings. In all this, he must seek meaning in his observations, his dreams, and, above all, silence.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Open LetterISBN-13:9781948830638ISBN-10:1948830639UPC:9781948830638Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Humorous, World LiteratureBook Topic:Dark Humor, PortugalSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4Product ID:SC9A29M9S2
Jo?o Reis (1985) is a Portuguese writer and a literary translator of Scandinavian languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, and Icelandic). He studied philosophy and has lived in Portugal, Norway, Sweden, and the UK. Reis's work has been compared to that of Hamsun and Kafka, and represents a literary style unseen in contemporary Portuguese writing. The Devastation of Silence, his third novel, was longlisted for Pr?mio Oceanos 2019. Adrian Minckley has a BA in Social Theory from the Evergreen State College, and an MA in Literary Translation Studies from the University of Rochester. Her forthcoming translations include The Whore by M?rcia Barbieri (Sublunary Editions, 2023).
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