num_pages: 288
description: Imprisoned for ten years for his rage against society activist and retired academic Prof resolves to live a life of darkness after his release from prison. He holes up in his apartment pushing away friends and family and embraces his status as an urban legend in the neighbourhood until a knock at the door shakes his new existence.His new visitor is Desire an orphan and final year student who has grown up idolising Prof following a fateful encounter in her hometown of Maroko as a child. Tentatively the two begin to form a bond as she returns every night at 9pm to see him. However the darkness of the room becomes a steady torment that threatens to drive Desire away for good. A Small Silence is an intimate and evocative debut charges us to look again at the alienating effects of trauma and the power of solitude and darkness to ignite the imagination.
language: English
title: A Small Silence
publisher: Cassava Republic Press