![]() Thankfully, the characters in the story realize it as well in short order, and the rest is figuring out the details, the significance of the sundry events that occur, the meaning of symbols that appear, the messages that intrude into the bubble, the finer points of their dilemma, and how things will turn out for the couple. The author certainly offers plenty of clues. ![]() It does not take long to figure out the main underlying situation here. But when they make their way back to their hotel, on the outskirts of Saint-Bernard-en-Haut near the French-Spanish border, everyone is gone, from the slopes, from the hotel, from the town. Only death accepted silence and there was silence here.In The Silent World, Graham Joyce’s eighteenth book and 2011 World Fantasy Award and British Fantasy Award nominee, a young couple, Zoe and Jake, on a skiing holiday in the Pyrenees, are caught in an avalanche. ![]() Perhaps not even in the ancient world, either: there was wind in the desert insects in the depths of the forest wave activity in the middle of the ocean. ![]() ![]() It wasn’t possible in the modern world, to listen to the sound of true silence. ![]()
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