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Also by Merethe Lindstrøm:

Days In The History Of Silence, September 2013
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DAYS IN THE HISTORY OF SILENCE
By: Merethe Lindstrøm

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September 2013
On Sale: August 27, 2013
240 pages
ISBN: 1590515951
EAN: 9781590515952
Kindle: B00BO4GEGU
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Literature and Fiction | Fiction | Contemporary

From the acclaimed Nordic Council Literature Prize winner, a story that reveals the devastating effects of mistaking silence for peace and feeling shame for inevitable circumstances

Eva and Simon have spent most of their adult lives together. He is a physician and she is a teacher, and they have three grown daughters and a comfortable home. Yet what binds them together isn’t only affection and solidarity but also the painful facts of their respective histories, which they keep hidden even from their own children. But after the abrupt dismissal of their housekeeper and Simon’s increasing withdrawal into himself, the past can no longer be repressed.

Lindstrøm has crafted a masterpiece about the grave mistakes we make when we misjudge the legacy of war, common prejudices, and our own strategies of survival.

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Diane Rehm Show - NPR - August 27, 2013