Anglický jazyk

Silent History, The

Vydavateľstvo: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
Rok vydania: 2014
Formát: Paperback
Rozmer: 191 x 127 mm
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9780374534479

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18.48 €

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O knihe

Both a bold storytelling experiment and a propulsive reading experience, Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby, and Kevin Moffett's The Silent History is at once thrilling, timely, and timeless.

A generation of children forced to live without words.

It begins as a statistical oddity: a spike in children born with acute speech delays. Physically normal in every way, these children never speak and do not respond to speech; they don't learn to read, don't learn to write. As the number of cases grows to an epidemic level, theories spread. Maybe it's related to a popular antidepressant; maybe it's environmental. Or maybe these children have special skills all their own.

The Silent History unfolds in a series of brief testimonials from parents, teachers, friends, doctors, cult leaders, profiteers, and impostors (everyone except, of course, the children themselves), documenting the growth of the so-called silent community into an elusive, enigmatic force in itself-alluring to some, threatening to others.