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The Silence And The Roar
Nihad Sirees
Other Press
March 2013
On Sale: March 5, 2013
160 pages
ISBN: 1590516451
EAN: 9781590516454
Kindle: B00A5MRB50
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Fiction Family Life
The Silence and the Roar takes place in an unnamed
Middle Eastern country resembling Syria. The story follows a
day in the life of Fathi Chin, an author banned from
publishing because he refuses to write propaganda for the
ruling government.
On this day, the entire country
has mobilized to celebrate the twenty year anniversary of
the reigning despot. The heat is oppressive and loudspeakers
blare as an endless, unbearably loud parade takes over the
streets. Desperate to get away from the noise and the
zombie-like masses, Fathi leaves his house to visit his
mother, but en route stops to help a student who is being
beaten by the police. Fathi's ID papers are confiscated and
he is forced to return home and told to report to the police
station before night falls.
When Fathi turns himself
in, he is led from one department to another in an
ever-widening bureaucratic labyrinth. His only weapon
against the irrationality of the government employees is his
sense of irony. The Silence and the Roar is a funny,
sexy, scathing novel about the struggle of an individual
over tyranny. Tinged with a Kafkaesque sense of the absurd,
it explores what it means to be truly free in mind and body,
despite the worst efforts of the state to impose its will on
its citizens.
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