{"product_id":"the-devastation-of-silence-9781948830638","title":"The Devastation of Silence","description":"\u003cb\u003eLike Louis-Ferdinand Céline 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\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Open Letter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781948830638\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 130","brand":"Jo\u0026#226;o Reis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42362387628213,"sku":"9781948830638","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_236882db-cacc-4c0e-84a5-a4a97ab8d1f9.jpg?v=1662434855","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-devastation-of-silence-9781948830638","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}