It is both a true literary achievement and an act of real courage by a brilliant Syrian writer. It asks what it means to have a conscience, or to laugh, or to endure in a time of the violence, strangeness and roar of tyranny. His novel The Silence and the Roar was banned in Syria, and has been translated into German. The Silence and the Roar (Al Samt wa Al Sakhab) is a personal, urgent, funny and aggrieved novel. The first annotated edition of Syrian writer Nihad Sireess The Silence and the Roar, created for the Arabic language classroom. Available in English for the first time, The Silence and the Roar is a funny, sexy, dystopian novel about the struggle of an individual over tyranny. He also wrote a TV series about the Lebanese writer Kahlil Gibran. But Fathi presses treacherously against the crowd, attempting just to visit his mother and his girlfriend. It is a day stifled by heat and the noise of the chants, a day of people trampled, and of the brutality and bullying of the party faithful. Fathi, a writer no longer permitted to write, makes his way through a city churned by parades for an unnamed dictator.
With The Silence and the Roar, Nihad Sirees writes a powerful, life-affirming and Kafkaesque novel about a censored writer trying to live a normal life under a Middle Eastern dictatorship, Syria. With The Silence and the Roar, Nihad Sirees writes a powerful, life-affirming and Kafkaesque novel about a censored writer trying to live a normal life under a Middle Eastern dictatorship, Syria.
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