Speak, Silence

Speak, Silence
Kim Echlin
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Hardback
h217 x 150mm - 208pg
4 Mar 2021 US
International import eta 7-19 days
9780735240612
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Written in Kim Echlin' s masterfully luminescent prose, Speak, Silence weaves together the experiences of a resilient sisterhood and tells the story of the real-life trial that would come to shape history. In a heart-wrenching tale of shame and loss and a beautiful illustration of power and love, Echlin explores what it means to speak out against the very people who would do anything to silence you.
"Writing about living through a war draws on some of our most volatile emotions and fears--the balance between trauma and sensationalism is a precarious one. Writing about the rage and humiliation of women raped in war takes this already precarious balance several degrees further. Speak, Silence ushers us into a community of women who guide us with sensitivity, clarity and love through their resistance to being stereotyped as victims. " --Ellen Elias-Bursac, translator of South Slavic languages and author of Translating Evidence and Interpreting Testimony at a War Crimes Tribunal"Between 1991 and 1995, an estimated 60,000 women were raped in wars in the former Yugoslavia. But the women did not allow these rapes to become an historical footnote or ' collateral damage. ' They witnessed their ordeal in The Hague' s International Tribunal. Thanks to these women, the world understood--for the first time--rape as a weapon of war and found the accused guilty of a Crime Against Humanity. This carefully researched and well-crafted novel, based on these true events, is an impressive monument to the women. " --Slavenka Drakulic, journalist and author of They Would Never Hurt a Fly
Award-winning author KIM ECHLIN lives in Toronto. She is the author of Elephant Winter and Dagmar' s Daughter, and her third novel, The Disappeared, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, won the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award for Fiction and was published in 20 countries. Her most recent novel Under the Visible Life was critically acclaimed, endorsed by Khaled Hosseini and declared nothing short of a masterpiece by Quill & Quire.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780735240612
Published: 4 Mar 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Prentice Hall Press
Publisher: Prentice Hall Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 217mm
Width: 150mm
Pages: 208

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