Shifting the Silence

Shifting the Silence does just that, breaks the social taboo around writing and speaking about our own deaths. In short unrelenting paragraphs, Adnan enumerates her personal struggle to conceptualize the breadth of her own life at 95, the process of aging, and the knowledge of her own inevitable death. The personal is continuously projected outwards and mirrored back through ruminations on climate catastrophe, California wildfires, the on-going war in Syria, planned missions to Mars, and the view of the sea from Adnan’s window in Brittany in a poignant often painful interplay between the interior and the cosmic.Author: Adnan, Etel,author Contributors: Adnan, Etel,author Binding: paperback Publication Date: Release Date: Languages: English,Published,English,Original Language,Englis Published/Release Date: 10 Dec 2020 Format: Paperback / softback Publisher/Studio/Brand: Nightboat Books Author/Director/Artist: Etel Adnan Dimension (cm): 201x135x10 mm Package Dimension (cm): 7x203x138 mm Item Weight (g): 1050 Package Weight (g): 118