![]() Over the course of the day our writer visits his mother, his lover, Lama, and his sister, but every journey and interaction is dominated by a vast demonstration of loyalty to The Leader which fills the streets of the city, and where anyone not apparently participating immediately becomes an object of suspicion. ![]() Sirees’ novel depicts one day in the life of a writer in an unnamed city, in a country ruled by a dictator known only as The Leader. The second is Syrian author Nihad Sirees’ novel The Silence and the Roar, out from Pushkin Press, trans. The first was Khaled Furani’s fabulous anthropological study of Palestinian poets, Silencing the Sea. If good things come in threes, I’m waiting for one more excellent book tackling the ideas of silence/ing, sound, voice, and the political role (or lack thereof) of the writer. ![]() But before she did, she sat down with his The Silence and the Roar, and shares her thoughts here: Sarah Irving spent time this week with Syrian author Nihad Sirees, now wrapping up his trip to London. ![]()
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