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020			_a9781908968296
245		4	_aThe Silence and the Roar _c/ Author: Nihad Sirees
260			_aLondon; _bPushkin Press; _c2013
300			_a170p; _c20x13cm
520			_aWith 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 Silence and the Roar is a personal, urgent, funny and aggrieved novel. It asks what it means to have a conscience, or to laugh, or to endure in a time of the violence, strangeness and roar of tyranny. It is both a true literary achievement and an act of real courage by a brilliant Syrian writer.
546			_aEnglish
650			_aPN1-6790 Literature (General) _921
651			_aSyria _91275
700			_aSirees, Nihan _91664
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