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Silence Is a Sense audiobook
- By: Layla AlAmmar
- Narrator: Laura Sawahla
- Category: Cultural Heritage, Fiction
- Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: March 16, 2021
- Language: English
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Silence Is a Sense Audiobook Summary
“This is not just good storytelling, but a blueprint for survival.” —The New York Times Book Review
A transfixing and beautifully rendered novel about a refugee’s escape from civil war–and the healing power of community.
A young woman sits in her apartment, watching the small daily dramas of her neighbors across the way. She is an outsider, a mute voyeur, safe behind her windows, and she sees it all–the sex, the fights, the happy and unhappy families. Journeying from her war-torn Syrian homeland to this unnamed British city has traumatized her into silence, and her only connection to the world is the magazine column she writes under the pseudonym “the Voiceless,” where she tries to explain the refugee experience without sensationalizing it–or revealing anything about herself. Gradually, though, the boundaries of her world expand. She ventures to the corner store, to a bookstore and a laundromat, and to a gathering at a nearby mosque. And it isn’t long before she finds herself involved in her neighbors’ lives. When an anti-Muslim hate crime rattles the neighborhood, she has to make a choice: Will she remain a voiceless observer, or become an active participant in a community that, despite her best efforts, is quickly becoming her own?
Layla AlAmmar, a Kuwaiti American writer and student of Arab literature, delivers here a brilliant and affecting story about memory, revolution, loss, and safety. Most of all, and with melodic prose, Silence Is a Sense reminds us just how fundamental human connection is to survival.
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Silence Is a Sense Audiobook Narrator
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About the Author(s) of Silence Is a Sense
Layla AlAmmar is the author of Silence Is a Sense
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Silence Is a Sense Full Details
| Narrator | Laura Sawahla |
| Length | 8 hours 18 minutes |
| Author | Layla AlAmmar |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Hachette Audio |
| Release date | March 16, 2021 |
| ISBN | 9781649040442 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Silence Is a Sense is Hachette Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Cultural Heritage, Fiction
Additional info
The publisher of the Silence Is a Sense is Hachette Audio. The imprint is Algonquin Books. It is supplied by Hachette Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781649040442.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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