A moving memoir about family from Man Booker shortlisted author Lloyd Jones.
Lloyd Jones is the author of several novels and short story collections which include Mister Pip, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize best book award and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2007. It has been made into a film starring Hugh Laurie. He lives in Wellington, New Zealand.
One of the bravest and best-written memoirs I have read
*Telegraph Books of the Year*
His book is a knockout, a fresh immaculately paced study of the
process by which old information becomes new, and one of the
bravest and best-written memoirs I have read
*Daily Telegraph*
Throughout this brilliant memoir, the ultimate impact of the book
lies with how openly and humanely Jones responds, as an author and
a son, to a truer picture of his family
*Australian Book Review*
Poetically observed detail and an affecting evocation of the past
will reward readers interested in the way our history can shape
us
*Books + Publishing*
Lloyd is a masterful writer and his exquisite prose renders a city
in much the same manner as a photographer, capturing the disaster
before him in all its fine, grainy detail . . . A History of
Silence is a unique and mesmerising book
*Big Issue*
A History of Silence is as . . . wilful and compelling as his
fiction
*Canberra Times*
A pleasurable experience, gently paced and studded with lovely
phrasing
*Weekend Australian*
Very moving portrayal of a disquieting family mystery
*Weekend Herald*
Eloquently portrayed
*Sunday Times*
A History of Silence is ravishing, a work that takes the 2011
Christchurch earthquake as its touchstone and turns into an almost
Joycean ramble through his memories of his family. It is often
beautifully, painfully frank about how little he knew his late
parents, as he obliquely traces their lives back to the start of
the 20th century, sleuthing about to find the painful secrets in
his mum's past. It's a work about the precariousness of our
domestic realities, a cryptic true-life detective story
*Metro*
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