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Graham Joyce: The Silent Land Graham Joyce: The Silent Land

Award-winning ​novelist and cult favorite Graham Joyce transports readers to a mysterious world of isolation and fear with a hypnotically dark story about a young couple trapped by an avalanche in the remote French Pyrenees. . . a daring and powerful novel about love, loss, and rebirth.

In the French Pyrenees, a young married couple is buried under a flash avalanche while skiing. Miraculously, Jake and Zoe dig their way out from under the snow—only to discover the world they knew has been overtaken by an eerie and absolute silence. Their hotel is devoid of another living soul. Cell phones and land lines are cut off. An evacuation as sudden and thorough as this leaves Jake and Zoe to face a terrifying situation alone. They are trapped by the storm, completely isolated, with another catastrophic avalanche threatening to bury them alive . . . again. And as the couple begin to witness unsettling events neither one can ignore, they are forced to confront a frightening truth… (tovább)

Eredeti megjelenés éve: 2011

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Doubleday, New York City, USA, 2011
262 oldal · ISBN: 9780385533805
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Gollancz, London, 2011
256 oldal · ISBN: 9780575083875

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Hanna IP>!

I can tell you a dozen different stories. This is what we are: a collection of stories that we share, in common. This is what we are to each other.

nola P>!

I think I was asleep most of my life. If there is a hell, that's the thing I'll be punished for most.

Hanna IP>!

True silence. The freezing of all sounds. It wasn’t possible in the modern world, to listen to the sound of true silence. Perhaps not even in the ancient world, either: there was wind in the desert; insects in the depths of the forest; wave activity in the middle of the ocean. Nature did not tolerate silence. Only death accepted silence; and there was silence here.


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