Silence and the Roar
Publisher: Pushkin Press, Limited; Pushkin Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9781908968296
Subjects: Fiction, political; Middle east, fiction
Description: With 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.