{"product_id":"the-devastation-of-silence-joo-reis-9781948830638","title":"Devastation of Silence","description":"\u003cb\u003eLike Louis-Ferdinand C駘ine meets Larry David\u003c\/b\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\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jo穉 Reis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1948830639\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781948830638\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Open Letter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/08\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.50d","brand":"Jo穉 Reis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44076897534207,"sku":"9781948830638","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_92e3b840-2316-4f34-9a84-4e381888ef0b.jpg?v=1685467361","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-devastation-of-silence-joo-reis-9781948830638","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}