{"product_id":"devastation-of-silence-paperback","title":"Devastation of Silence - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoâo Reis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAdrian Minckley\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLike Louis-Ferdinand Céline meets Larry David\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe 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 . . .\u003c\/i\u003eSet during the difficult era of the Great War, \u003ci\u003eThe Silence Devastation\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoão Reis\u003c\/b\u003e (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. \u003ci\u003eThe Devastation of Silence\u003c\/i\u003e, his third novel, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ewas\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003elonglisted for Prémio Oceanos 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eAdrian Minckley\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Whore \u003c\/i\u003eby Márcia Barbieri (Sublunary Editions, 2023).\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 130\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 08, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766255976736,"sku":"9781948830638","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/af6a86baf606e69f7f18d81e5ae30c19.webp?v=1780288443","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/devastation-of-silence-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}