02013nam a22003497a 4500 21722521 20230601075103.0 230601b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 2020042150 9781643750262 (hardcover) 9780008346652 (hardcover) 9781643752556 (paperback) 9781643751726 (ebook) DLC eng rda KMU KMU pcc a-sy--- PR6101.L38 S55 2021 AlAmmar, Layla, author. Silence is a sense / Layla AlAmmar. First edition. Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2021. [8], 247 pages ; text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "A woman sits in her apartment in an unnamed English city, absorbed in watching the dramas of her neighbors through their windows. Traumatized into muteness after a long, devastating trip from war-torn Syria to the UK, she believes that she wants to sink deeper into isolation, moving between memories of her absent boyfriend and family and her homeland, dreams, and reality. At the same time, she begins writing for a magazine under the pseudonym "the Voiceless," trying to explain the refugee experience without sensationalizing it-or revealing anything about herself. Gradually, as the boundaries of her world expand, she has to make a choice: Will she remain a voiceless observer, or become an active participant in her own life and in a community that, despite her best efforts, is quickly becoming her own?"-- Provided by publisher. General public Refugees Syria Fiction. 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc FM 0 352 352 0 0 lcc 0 0 FIC CPL CPL OA 2023-03-15 ZLS 3 1 PR6101.L38 300307 2025-02-12 00:00:00 2025-02-05 2023-06-01 FM