Shifting the Silence
Paperback 88 pages English October 27, 2020
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A heart-rending meditation on aging, grief, and the universal experience of facing down death.Shifting the Silence breaks the taboo around writing and speaking about our own deaths. In short, unrelenting paragraphs, Adnan grapples with the breadth of her life at ninety-five, the process of aging, and the knowledge of her own approaching death. The personal is continuously projected outwards and mirrored back through ruminations on climate catastrophe, the ongoing war in Syria, Mars missions, and Adnan's view of the sea out of her window in Brittany in a poignant, often painful interplay between the interior and the cosmic.
- Author:
- Etel Adnan
- Publisher:
- Nightboat Books
- Publication Date:
- October 27, 2020
- Number of pages:
- 88 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1643620304
- ISBN-13:
- 9781643620305