The Silence and the Roar by Sirees, Nihad
The Silence and the Roar by Sirees, Nihad

The Silence and the Roar

Available in English for the first time, The Silence and the Roar is a funny, sexy, dystopian...
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Author: Nihad Sirees
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The Silence and the Roar by Sirees, Nihad

The Silence and the Roar

$25.75
The Silence and the Roar by Sirees, Nihad

The Silence and the Roar

$25.75
Author: Nihad Sirees
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Available in English for the first time, The Silence and the Roar is a funny, sexy, dystopian novel about the struggle of an individual over tyranny.

The Silence and the Roar follows a day in the life of Fathi Sheen, an author banned from publishing because he refuses to write propaganda for the ruling government. The entire populace has mobilized to celebrate the twenty-year anniversary of the reigning despot in this unnamed Middle eastern country. The heat is oppressive and loudspeakers blare as an endless 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 and his girlfriend, but en route stops to help a student who is being beaten by the police. Fathi's iD papers are confiscated and he is 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. Tinged with a Kafkaesque sense of the absurd, The Silence and the Roar explores what it means to be truly free in mind and body.

Author: Nihad Sirees
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Published: 03/05/2013
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 7.74h x 5.08w x 0.51d
ISBN: 9781590516454


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/21/2013
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2013
Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/04/2013 pg. 21

About the Author

Nihad Sirees is a civil engineer who was born in the ancient Syrian city of Aleppo in 1950. His other novels include Cancer, The North Winds, and A Case of Passion. He has also written several plays and television dramas, the latest of which, Al Khait Al Abiadh (The First Gleam of Dawn), provides a frank depiction of the country's government controlled media and has been wildly acclaimed for its boldness and controversial nature. Branded an opponent of the government, publication of several of his works was forbidden by government censors. His subsequent novels were published abroad. He left Syria in January, 2012, to avoid Syrian security services. Since that time he has lived in self-imposed exile in Cairo, Egypt.

Max Weiss is an Assistant Professor of History and Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He is author of In the Shadow of Sectarianism: Law, Shi`ism, and the Making of Modern Lebanon, co-editor of Facing Fear: The History of an Emotion in Global Perspective and translator, most recently, of Hassouna Mosbahi, A Tunisian Tale and Samar Yazbek, A Woman in the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution.
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