European Literature Network and Gabriel Gbadamosi:The Book of Whispers is a silent reading of the collective and individual memories of Armenians

European Literature Network and Gabriel Gbadamosi:The Book of Whispers is a silent reading of the collective and individual memories of Armenians.

The Book of Whispers is a self-consciously intellectual take on how to capture a people who have disappeared, who have been placed ‘outside the mirror’ and yet persist through echoes of their stories, presences and ghostly life.

Born into a milieu of Armenians in Romania, the writer grows up to recognise the imprint in those around him of an obliquely held culture of experience, thought and communication. We meet the Armenians – in their wanderings, their poverty, persecution, murder, displacement and exile. Theirs is a culture in which whispers are stifled tears, which sees through this mirror in a whisper. This book is a silent reading of their collective and individual memories.

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