Silent Planet
| By: | Eve Leigh |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury UK |
| Print ISBN: | 9781783192052 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781783197040 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Silent Planet is a love story about our love of stories, a passionate and poetic fable about the power of literature in a world in which the wrong words can get you killed.
At the height of the Cold War, dissident writer Gavriil is detained in a Soviet mental prison as a punishment for protesting against the government. His only escape is the prison library, a treasure store of banned literature available to the patients, but off-limits to the prison staff. His interrogator, Yurchak, offers to protect him from torture in exchange for sharing the forbidden stories. Their agreement allows them both a kind of freedom - at the risk of their lives.