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We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think

By Shirley Hazzard

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About the book

Spanning the 1960s to the 2000s, these nonfiction writings showcase Shirley Hazzard's extensive thinking on global politics, international relations, the history and fraught present of Western literary culture, and postwar life in Europe and Asia. They add essential clarity to the themes that dominate her award-winning fiction and expand the intellectual registers in which her writings work. Hazzard writes about her employment at the United Nations and the institution's manifold failings. She sh...Show more

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9780231173278

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published year

2017

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1

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We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think

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Paperback

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