Joâo Reis The Devastation of Silence recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de Portugese roman over de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Op 8 november 2022 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Open Letter Books de Engelse vertaling van de roman A Devastação do Silêncio van de Portugese schrijver Joâo Reis.
Joâo Reis The Devastation of Silence recensie en informatie
Zodra de roman gelezen is door de redactie, kun je op deze pagina recensie en waardering vinden van de roman The Devastation of Silence. Het boek is geschreven door Joâo Reis. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden te vinden. Bovendien bevat deze pagina informatie over de inhoud van de roman over de Eerste Wereldoorlog van de Portugese schrijver Joâo Reis.
The Devastation of Silence
- Schrijver: Joâo Reis (Portugal)
- Soort boek: Portugese roman
- Origineel: A Devastação do Silêncio (2018)
- Engelse vertaling: Adrian Minckley
- Uitgever: Open Letter Books
- Verschijnt: 8 november 2022
- Omvang: 130 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback
Flaptekst van de roman van Joâo Reis
“The nights were terrible, during the day we were occupied, but at night we got to thinking, picturing food, our houses, food again, painful memories from our childhoods—that abominable era—would mix with images of food and our torture would grow and grow, I recalled my impotence before the plate I was ordered to clean, the impossibility of choice in a world into which I had been thrust unwillingly, war was indeed an extension of the torture of being born.”
Set during the difficult era of the Great War, The Devastation of Silence is the story of a captain in the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps who, with no documents showing his rank, finds himself in a German prison camp forced to share the circumstances of his poorer countrymen. He is hungry, constantly plagued by the sound of incessant detonations—and trying to finish his oral account of a strange story about a German scientist and voice recordings. In all this, he must seek meaning in his observations, his dreams, and, above all, silence.
