![]() ![]() It is both a true literary achievement and an act of real courage by a brilliant Syrian writer. The Silence and the Roar Available in English for the first time, The Silence and the Roar is a funny, sexy, dystopian novel about the struggle of an. It asks what it means to have a conscience, or to laugh, or to endure in a time of the violence, strangeness and roar of tyranny. ![]() The Silence and the Roar (Al Samt wa Al Sakhab) is a personal, urgent, funny and aggrieved novel. His novel The Silence and the Roar-which was penned in 2004 during a period of internal exile-is banned in Syria. ![]() But Fathi presses treacherously against the crowd, attempting just to visit his mother and his girlfriend. 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. Fathi, a writer no longer permitted to write, makes his way through a city churned by parades for an unnamed dictator. 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. ![]()
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