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The Silent Land - Graham Joyce
The Silent Land
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A young couple are caught in an avalanche during a ski-ing holiday in the French Alps. They struggle back to the village and find it deserted. As the days go by they wait for rescue, then try to leave. But each time they find themselves back in the village. And, increasingly, they are plagued by... show more
A young couple are caught in an avalanche during a ski-ing holiday in the French Alps. They struggle back to the village and find it deserted. As the days go by they wait for rescue, then try to leave. But each time they find themselves back in the village. And, increasingly, they are plagued by visions and dreams and the realization that perhaps no-one could have survived the avalanche.THE SILENT LAND is a brooding and tender look at love and whether it can survive the greatest challenge we will ever face.
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B004BDOK62
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runner
runner rated it
5.0 Hauntingly beautiful
Waking up on a cold winter's morning, after a snowfall, and the streets are eerily quiet. Snowfall always seems to create an uneasy, sometimes sombre atmosphere, invading our structured world and our cosy existence. White snowy panoramic pictures have been used to great effect in the past in such b...
Lornographic Material
Lornographic Material rated it
4.0 The Silent Land Review
The Silent Land is my first experience with Graham Joyce. Gregor Xane told me to read this book with my face, so when I found it at my local UBS, I snatched it up with extreme prejudice. That doesn't make any sense, does it? Oh well... First and foremost, I must comment on how gorgeous the American ...
Kealan Patrick Burke
Kealan Patrick Burke rated it
4.0 The Silent Land
A beautiful love story and meditation on life and death, made all the more heartbreaking and poignant by the passing of the author last year. A wonderful novel from a talent that will be sorely missed.
target acquired
target acquired rated it
3.5 The Silent Land by Graham Joyce
youngish married couple go on a ski trip. avalanche! when they extricate themselves from the snow they find that everyone at their ski village has disappeared and that time now moves differently. what the hell?fortunately, guessing the (entirely predictable) twists that come at the halfway and end p...
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