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A Book of Silence (Paperback)
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Short Description for A Book of SilenceAfter a noisy upbringing as one of six children, and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, the author began to crave silence. She has spent periods of silence in the Sinai desert, the Australian bush, and the Isle of Skye. This book interweaves these experiences with the history of silence through fairy-tale and myth.
Full description- Publisher: GRANTA BOOKS
- Published: 03 August 2009
- Format: Paperback 320 pages
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- Categories: Biography: General | Memoirs | Spirituality & Religious Experience
- ISBN 13: 9781847081513 ISBN 10: 1847081517
- Sales rank: 22,139
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Full description for A Book of Silence
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 the Isle of Skye. She interweaves these experiences 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 Scottish moor, and the book culminates powerfully with her experiences of silence in this new home.
