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Speak, Silence
Speak, Silence | Kim Echlin
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From the internationally bestselling and Giller-shortlisted author of The Disappeared, an astounding, poetic novel about war and loss, suffering and courage, and the strength of women through it all. It�s been eleven years since Gota (…more)
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This is a powerful and disturbing book about a journalist who attends trials at The Hague for war crimes committed during the Bosnian war. She learns the stories of the women who are the principal victims of these horrific crimes.

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Librarybelle This sounds like this is a tough read 3y
TheAromaofBooks Great progress!!! 3y
EvieBee Wow! Must read. Sounds like a companion to 3y
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kwmg40 @Librarybelle It certainly was a tough read, but worthwhile! 3y
kwmg40 @TheAromaofBooks Thanks for the encouragement! 3y
kwmg40 @EvieBee This book did remind me of Intimacies, which I had liked very much. However, it is even more disturbing, as much of the book is focussed on the victims' stories. 3y
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War creeps up. Loudspeakers. Broadcasts. Hate your neighbour. On the radio, hate mixed in with local reports. Weather. Hate. Community news. Hate. Music. Hate. Some lives are worth less than others. People shrugged. Propaganda, they said. As if words no longer mattered, said Edina. At first no one believed what was happening.
(Internet photo of Sarajevo)

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There is only the lifetime burning in every moment.

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She said, I sleep in a net of nightmares. I cannot be silent but I do not want to speak.

(Internet photo of the International Criminal Court, The Hague)

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A child is loaned to us and when the time is right the child is reclaimed by the world. And yet, mother and child are inside each other forever. A mother receives wisdom if she is willing to submit, if she is willing to love ferociously and then shake her child free.
(Art by Alison Bechdel)

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Walls and borders are the natural habitat of ghosts. I do not invite ghosts in but I do not close myself to them either. I hear their voices like birdcall in the dark. They are perceptible through stone and brick and plaster. I think sometimes ghosts surprise even themselves. They have things to tell us. If we can hear, they are everywhere.
(Internet photo)

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I stepped on a low stair on which was written LIVE FOR HUMANITY and pulled the shop around me like a warm quilt.

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I‘m working on my longlist prediction/wish list for the Giller, which will be announced tomorrow. This is what I‘ve got so far. #canlit #shadowgiller2021

Megabooks Just finished the Ohlin. It was great! 4y
Lindy @Megabooks Glad to hear you enjoyed it. 😁 4y
Penny_LiteraryHoarders Cannot wait to see the official list tomorrow!! 4y
Lindy @Penny_LiteraryHoarders Me too. I‘m such a book nerd! 4y
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More than anything I wanted to become a lawyer ever since I saw the American program about the lawyer in a wheelchair called Perry Mason. My mother who did not complete high school was happy I would do more. When it was time for me to leave for the city, my father gave me his old copy of The Damned Yard because he had always loved those stories. He embraced me and said, Do not look where the harvest is plentiful but where people are kind.

Lindy Of course this passage made me curious about the book and I leaned that Ivo Andrič is the only author from former Yugoslavia to have won the Nobel prize. 4y
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