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A Book of Silence Book

A memoir of the author;'s experiences with periods of silence in the Sinai desert the Australian bush and a remote cottage on the Isle of Skye.Read More

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    After a noisy upbringing as one of six children, and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, Sara Maitland began to crave silence. Over the past five years, she has spent periods of silence in the Sinai desert, the Australian bush, and a remote cottage on the Isle of Skye. Her memoir of these experiences is interwoven with the history of silence through fairy-tale and myth, Western and Eastern religious traditions, the Enlightenment and psychoanalysis, up to the ambivalence towards silence in contemporary society. Maitland has built a hermitage on an isolated moor in Galloway, and the book culminates powerfully with her experiences of silence in this new home. "A Book of Silence" is a deeply thoughtful, honest and illuminating memoir about a phenomenon too often neglected in the contemporary world.

  • 1847080421
  • 9781847080424
  • Sara Maitland
  • 1 November 2008
  • Granta Books
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 320
  • First Edition, Second Impression
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