- Published: 21 August 2013
- ISBN: 9780143569473
- Imprint: Penguin
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 288
- RRP: $38.00
A History of Silence: A Memoir (NZ Ed)
- Published: 21 August 2013
- ISBN: 9780143569473
- Imprint: Penguin
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 288
- RRP: $38.00
'Superbly written, A History of Silence is an extraordinary work from one of New Zealand's master storytellers.' —NZ Listener
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'The book gathers an urgency and and poignancy that at times becomes as painful as pulling flesh across barbed wire, and we become aware the lineaments of grand tragedy can be found in the back streets of Lower Hutt, if the silence that holds together eggshell lives can be broken and the stories told for all of us to hear.' —Otago Daily Times
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'In the parallels drawn between a broken city and family amnesia lies Jones' honest and thought-provoking memoir, A History of Silence.' —Sydney Morning Herald
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' Told in Jones' evocative prose, [The History of Silence] is a moving portrait of a Wellington childhood, a family that moved across an ocean, an fo a secret wrapped in silence.' —Kia Ora
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'Jones is a great literary artist and everywhere his fictive skills shine through.' —NZ Listener (Best Books of 2013)
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'Jones tells a fascinating family story of abandonment and secrecy with characteristic style . A History of Silence is also disaster literature as the Christchurch earthquakes are employed as a deep metaphor for broken lives and erased memory.' —Dominion Post Weekend (Best Books of 2013)
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'Its artfulness is hidden, its scaffolding invisible, its craft impressive. Its sentences are not bogged down in image and metaphor, yet both are over -archingly present, and highly effective.' —NZ Books
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