Land Of Silence

Author : Tessa Afshar
Publisher : NavPress
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496414366

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Land of Silence by Tessa Afshar Pdf

2017 INSPY Award winner, general fiction category Before Christ called her daughter . . . Before she stole healing by touching the hem of his garment . . . Elianna is a young girl crushed by guilt. After her only brother is killed while in her care, Elianna tries to earn forgiveness by working for her father’s textile trade and caring for her family. When another tragedy places Elianna in sole charge of the business, her talent for design brings enormous success, but never the absolution she longs for. As her world unravels, she breaks off her betrothal to the only man she will ever love. Then illness strikes, isolating Elianna from everyone, stripping everything she has left. No physician can cure her. No end is in sight. Until she hears whispers of a man whose mere touch can heal. After so many years of suffering and disappointment, is it possible that one man could redeem the wounds of body . . . and soul?

Author : Jesús Urzagasti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015033257513

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In the Land of Silence by Jesús Urzagasti Pdf

The story of Jursafu, a Bolivian journalist caught up in a revolutionary struggle. The novel traces his development from simple country boy to intellectual, but one who still retains the common touch.

Author : Clements R. Markham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108076876

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The Lands of Silence by Clements R. Markham Pdf

Published posthumously in 1921, Markham's illustrated history draws on his extensive knowledge of contemporary polar explorers and expeditions.

Author : Silvia Montiglio
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400823765

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Silence in the Land of Logos by Silvia Montiglio Pdf

In ancient Greece, the spoken word connoted power, whether in the free speech accorded to citizens or in the voice of the poet, whose song was thought to know no earthly bounds. But how did silence fit into the mental framework of a society that valued speech so highly? Here Silvia Montiglio provides the first comprehensive investigation into silence as a distinctive and meaningful phenomenon in archaic and classical Greece. Arguing that the notion of silence is not a universal given but is rather situated in a complex network of associations and values, Montiglio seeks to establish general principles for understanding silence through analyses of cultural practices, including religion, literature, and law. Unlike the silence of a Christian before an ineffable God, which signifies the uselessness of words, silence in Greek religion paradoxically expresses the power of logos--for example, during prayer and sacrifice, it serves as a shield against words that could offend the gods. Montiglio goes on to explore silence in the world of the epic hero, where words are equated with action and their absence signals paralysis or tension in power relationships. Her other examples include oratory, a practice in which citizens must balance their words with silence in very complex ways in order to show that they do not abuse their right to speak. Inquiries into lyric poetry, drama, medical writings, and historiography round out this unprecedented study, revealing silence as a force in its own right.

Author : Hugh Brody
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780571370955

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Landscapes of Silence by Hugh Brody Pdf

Hugh Brody is renowned for his work with indigenous peoples. In the 80s he was engaged in a lawsuit brought by the Inuit people of the Arctic against the Canadian government. Brody lived with the Inuit, learned their language, recorded all their stories, which were then used as evidence in the court case - which the Inuit won. In his new book, he returns to the Arctic and is confronted by the deterioration of the situation there. The Inuit now possess the land, but the government has pressured them into living in settlements rather than out on the land. Their children are forced to go to school where they learn to speak English, losing their own language, which is the element that ties them to their land. Sexual abuse by the treachers intimidates the children into a silence that results in widespread suicide among the young. This silence ties in with Brody's own story - a mother hounded out of her home in Vienna by the Nazis, causing her to retreat into the same kind of silence that Tom Stoppard experienced from his mother, who also fled from the Nazis. As a writer and anthropologist, Brody's concern has always been with the human condition, arguing for the need to safeguard the most vulnerable from the depredations of the modern word.

Author : Bennett George Johns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Blind
ISBN : BL:A0023725950

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The Land of Silence and the Land of Darkness by Bennett George Johns Pdf

Author : May Sarton
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781497689558

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The Land of Silence by May Sarton Pdf

A splendid collection from a true master It is often in solitude that a writer begins to understand herself. This becomes evident in The Land of Silence, May Sarton’s collection of poems previously published in the New Yorker and Harper’s Magazine, as Sarton searches for solitude and tries to understand the regrets and ecstasies associated with it. Images from these poems linger in the mind’s eye: a bird, a dream. Sarton’s verse feels real, yet it represents something more. Published in 1953, the year after Sarton won the Reynolds Lyric Award of the Poetry Society of America, The Land of Silence presents a poet at peak form.

Author : Louise Erdrich
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780061756719

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The Game of Silence by Louise Erdrich Pdf

Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, The Game of Silence is the second novel in the critically acclaimed Birchbark House series by New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich. Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an island in Lake Superior. One day in 1850, Omakayas’s island is visited by a group of mysterious people. From them, she learns that the chimookomanag, or white people, want Omakayas and her people to leave their island and move farther west. That day, Omakayas realizes that something so valuable, so important that she never knew she had it in the first place, could be in danger: Her way of life. Her home. The Birchbark House Series is the story of one Ojibwe family’s journey through one hundred years in America. The New York Times Book Review raved about The Game of Silence: “Erdrich has created a world, fictional but real: absorbing, funny, serious and convincingly human.”

Author : Kathy Kacer
Publisher : Annick Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781773212647

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Masters of Silence by Kathy Kacer Pdf

Silence can be powerful. Kathy Kacer’s second book in her middle grade series about heroic rescues during WWII tells the tale of siblings Helen and Henry, and history’s most famous mime. Desperate to save them from the Nazis, Henry and Helen’s mother makes the harrowing decision to take her children from their home in 1940s Germany and leave them in the care of strangers in France. The brother and sister must hide their Jewish identity to pass for orphans being fostered at a convent in the foreign land. Visits from a local mime become the children’s one source of joy, especially for Henry, whose traumatic experience has left him a selective mute. When an informer gives them up, the children are forced to flee yet again from the Nazis, but this time the local mime—a not yet famous Marcel Marceau—risks everything to try to save the children. Masters of Silence shows award-winning author Kathy Kacer at the top of her craft, bringing to light the little-known story of Marceau’s heroic work for the French Resistance. Marceau would go on to save hundreds of children from Nazi concentration camps and death during WWII. In characteristic Kacer style, Masters of Silence is dramatic and engaging, and highlights the courage of both those rescuing and the rescued themselves. Wenting Li’s chapter heading illustrations and evocative covers provide the perfect visuals for the series.

Author : James Finch
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9814954942

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Silence in the Land of Gold by James Finch Pdf

At the heart of Silence in the Land of Gold is an intrigue over a fortune lost in an air crash involving the Burmese military and the Kachin Independence Army. George Wilford is a foreign lawyer who must solve the mystery of the crash to save his own life and that of the woman with whom he falls in love.

Author : Georgina Harding
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781608197873

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Painter of Silence by Georgina Harding Pdf

It is the early 1950s. A nameless man is found on the steps of the hospital in Iasi, Romania. He is deaf and mute, but a young nurse named Safta recognizes him from the past and brings him paper and pencils so that he might draw. Gradually, memories appear on the page: the man is Augustin, the cook's son at the manor house at Poiana where Safta was the privileged daughter. Born six months apart, they had a connection that bypassed words, but while Augustin's world stayed the same size, Safta's expanded to embrace languages, society, and a fleeting love one long, hot summer. But then came war, and in its wake a brutal Stalinist regime, and nothing would remain the same. Georgina Harding's kaleidoscopic new novel will appeal to readers of Anne Michaels, Michael Ondaatje, and Sandor Marai. It is as intense and submerging as rain, as steeped in the horrors of our recent history as it is in the intimate passions of the human heart.

Author : Lisa McMann
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442407725

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Island of Silence by Lisa McMann Pdf

As the Wanteds, Unwanteds, and Necessaries struggle to adjust to changes in their society, Mr. Today begins training 14-year-old Alex to replace him as Artime's leader one day while Alex's disgraced twin, Aaron, connives to take over Quill.

Author : Kyriacos C. Markides
Publisher : Image
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780385500920

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The Mountain of Silence by Kyriacos C. Markides Pdf

An acclaimed expert in Christian mysticism travels to a monastery high in the Trodos Mountains of Cyprus and offers a fascinating look at the Greek Orthodox approach to spirituality that will appeal to readers of Carlos Castaneda. In an engaging combination of dialogues, reflections, conversations, history, and travel information, Kyriacos C. Markides continues the exploration of a spiritual tradition and practice little known in the West he began in Riding with the Lion. His earlier book took readers to the isolated peninsula of Mount Athos in northern Greece and into the group of ancient monasteries. There, in what might be called a “Christian Tibet,” two thousand monks and hermits practice the spiritual arts to attain a oneness with God. In his new book, Markides follows Father Maximos, one of Mount Athos’s monks, to the troubled island of Cyprus. As Father Maximos establishes churches, convents, and monasteries in this deeply divided land, Markides is awakened anew to the magnificent spirituality of the Greek Orthodox Church. Images of the land and the people of Cyprus and details of its tragic history enrich the Mountain of Silence. Like the writings of Castaneda, the book brilliantly evokes the confluence of an inner and outer journey. The depth and richness of its spiritual message echo the thoughts and writings of Saint Francis of Assisi and other great saints of the Church as well. The result is a remarkable work–a moving, profoundly human examination of the role and the power of spirituality in a complex and confusing world.

Author : Daniel Wilkinson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0822333686

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Silence on the Mountain by Daniel Wilkinson Pdf

Written by a young human rights worker, "Silence on the Mountain" is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala's 36-year internal war, a conflict that claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people.

Author : Alex Myers
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008352707

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The Story of Silence by Alex Myers Pdf

A knightly fairy tale of royalty and dragons, of midwives with secrets and dashing strangers in dark inns. Taking the original French legend as his starting point, The Story of Silence is a rich, multilayered new story for today’s world – sure to delight fans of Uprooted and The Bear and the Nightingale.