Silences, or a Woman's Life Portuguese "This is the most ambitious

"This is the most ambitious and skillful novel to come out of Mexico in a long time

MUHAREM BAZDULJ

Leïla Sebbar was born in 1941 to an Algerian father and a French mother

the account of poet-aspirant Brigge in his exploration of poetic individuality and his reflections on the experience of time as death approaches

Silences, or a Woman's Life Portuguese "This is the most ambitiousWhen a woman falls into a coma, her daughter accompanies her through six weeks of agony, bearing witness to the prolonged death imposed upon her by the monstrous machine of modern medicine. During this final voyage through the fog, the narrator A woman falls into a coma. Perhaps she's going to die. Becoming the sleepers shadow, the womans daughter will accompany her mother through six weeks of agony, bearing witness to the prolonged death imposed upon