{"product_id":"9781948830638","title":"The Devastation of Silence","description":"Author: Joo Reis\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781948830638\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Open Letter\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 07 Feb 2023\u003cbr\u003ePages: 130\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLike Louis-Ferdinand Celine meets Larry David\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe 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 . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet during the difficult era of the Great War, \u003ci\u003eThe Silence Devastation\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46867126157470,"sku":"ADS-9781948830638","price":29.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781948830638.jpg?v=1779430511","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781948830638","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}