After Forty Years Silence
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Breaking a long and painful silence, After Forty Years Silence by Alex Colman is a raw and deeply personal work that chronicles the untold stories of lives marked by hardship, endurance, and the weight of suppressed memory. The collection presents voices — fragmented yet powerful — that speak to displacement, survival, and the human cost of political and social upheaval, drawing the reader into worlds that history has too often overlooked. Colman writes with an unflinching directness, wielding language as both a scalpel and a salve, dissecting collective trauma while simultaneously honouring the resilience of those who endured it. The work sits at a compelling crossroads of personal testimony and broader social conscience, illuminating the consequences of enforced silence across generations. For those drawn to literature that refuses to look away, this is a haunting and necessary read — one that asks: what is truly lost in forty years of silence, and what remains?
Author: Alex Colman
Format: Paperback
Published: 1990, Jewish Holocaust Centre
Genre: Poetry
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Breaking a long and painful silence, After Forty Years Silence by Alex Colman is a raw and deeply personal work that chronicles the untold stories of lives marked by hardship, endurance, and the weight of suppressed memory. The collection presents voices — fragmented yet powerful — that speak to displacement, survival, and the human cost of political and social upheaval, drawing the reader into worlds that history has too often overlooked. Colman writes with an unflinching directness, wielding language as both a scalpel and a salve, dissecting collective trauma while simultaneously honouring the resilience of those who endured it. The work sits at a compelling crossroads of personal testimony and broader social conscience, illuminating the consequences of enforced silence across generations. For those drawn to literature that refuses to look away, this is a haunting and necessary read — one that asks: what is truly lost in forty years of silence, and what remains?