The Silence of the World

A novel about being deaf, about language, and about the difficulties in communicating, where gesture replaces words, where listening requires effort. But it is also a novel about an issue that concerns the author in a very personal way because Tommaso Avati was born hearing impaired.

“I know what it means not to hear, to live in a hushed world where you are separated from even your loved ones.” this quiet world which is in many ways unattainable has become a novel of women, filled with poetry and uncompromising tenderness.

She would remember her mother forever, for as long as she lived, because her mother was deaf, like her.
But she possessed a fabulous and inexplicable power: the magical capacity to hold words in her hand.