A Book of Silence

Informationen zum Autor Sara Maitland is the author of numerous works of fiction, including the Somerset Maugham Award-winning Daughters of Jerusalem , and several non-fiction books about religion. Born in 1950, she studied at Oxford University and currently tutors on the MA in creative writing for Lancaster University. She lives in Galloway. Klappentext 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 the Isle of Skye. She interweaves these experiences 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 Scottish moor, and the book culminates powerfully with her experiences of silence in this new home. Zusammenfassung The critically acclaimed memoir of a search for silence that achieved a surprise success much noisier than its subject ...

Product details

• Authors: Granta, Sara Maitland
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.08.2009
• EAN: 9781847081513
• ISBN: 978-1-84708-151-3
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, RELIGION / Spirituality, Memoirs, Spirituality & religious experience