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Shifting the Silence

Paperback • 2020 • English

Shifting the Silence

By Etel Adnan

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

Shifting the Silence does just that, breaks the social taboo around writing and speaking about our own deaths. In short unrelenting paragraphs, Adnan enumerates her personal struggle to conceptualize the breadth of her own life at 95, the process of aging, and the knowledge of her own inevitable death. The personal is continuously projected outwards and mirrored back through ruminations on climate catastrophe, California wildfires, the on-going war in Syria, planned missions to Mars, and the vie...Show more

Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world
Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss
Narrative theme: Social issues

Book details

ISBN

9781643620305

Publisher

Nightboat Books

Published year

2020

Language

English

Original title

Shifting the Silence

Format

Paperback

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