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An Answer from the Silence: A Story from the Mountains

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An Answer from the Silence: A Story from the Mountains - Frisch, Max, and Mitchell, Mike (Translated by)
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This novel by esteemed Swiss writer Max Frisch is an exploration of the question: "Why don't we live when we know we're here just this one time, just one single, unrepeatable time in this unutterably magnificent world?!" This outcry against the emptiness of ordinary everyday life uttered by the hero of Frisch's book is countered by "an answer from the silence" he meets when face-to-face with death. When An Answer from the Silence begins, the protagonist has just turned thirty and is engaged to be married and about to ...

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An Answer from the Silence: A Story from the Mountains 2019, Seagull Books

ISBN-13: 9780857427106

Trade paperback

An Answer from the Silence: A Story from the Mountains 2011, Seagull Books

ISBN-13: 9781906497927

Hardcover