PORTUGUESE

O Livro do Silêncio

By Sara , Maitland

Book information

Publisher
Estrela Polar
Year
2012
ISBN
9789895557868, 9895557868, 9789898206701, 9898206705
Language
portuguese
Format
EPUB
Filesize
357 kB (365888 bytes)
Edition
1. Aufl
Pages
Online Ressource\0
Time added
2020-11-29 04:15:52
Nonfiction;Autobiography;Memoir;Spirituality;Biogr

Description

After a noisy upbringing as one of six children, and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, Sara Maitland began to crave silence. Over the past five years, she has spent periods of silence in the Sinai desert, the Australian bush, and a remote cottage on the Isle of Skye. Her memoir of these experiences is interwoven with the history of silence through fairy-tale and myth, Western and Eastern religious traditions, the Enlightenment and psychoanalysis, up to the ambivalence towards silence in contemporary society. Maitland has built a hermitage on an isolated moor in Galloway, and the book culminates powerfully with her experiences of silence in this new home. "A Book of Silence" is a deeply thoughtful, honest and illuminating memoir about a phenomenon too often neglected in the contemporary world.

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