One day he leaves their Montreal flat to seek out his family in the aftermath of Pol Pot’s savage revolution. In a heart-wrenching tale of suffering and loss and a beautiful illustration of power and love, Echlin explores what it means to speak out against the very people who would do anything to silence you.Ĭalgary Public Library Kim Echlin’s Other Book The DisappearedĪnne Greves is a motherless Canadian girl and her lover, Serey, a gentle Cambodian rebel and exiled musician.
Written in Kim Echlin’s masterfully luminescent prose, Speak, Silence weaves together the experiences of a resilient sisterhood and tells the story of the real-life trial that would come to shape history. The events she covers – and the stories she hears – will change her life forever. Before long, Gota finds her life entwined with the community of women and travels with them to The Hague to confront their abusers.
A lawyer and a force to be reckoned with, Edina exposes the sexual violence that she and thousands of others survived in the war. While Gota treads the precarious terrain of her evolving connection to Kosmos, she and Edina forge an unexpected bond. Kosmos introduces Gota to Edina, the woman he has always loved. She takes the assignment to investigate the fallout of the Bosnian war - and to reconnect with the love of her life.īut when they are reunited, she finds a man, and a country, altered beyond recognition.
Now it’s 1999 and, working as a journalist, she hears about a film festival in Sarajevo, where she knows Kosmos will be with his theatre company. It’s been eleven years since Gota has seen Kosmos, yet she still finds herself fantasizing about their intimate year together in Paris. Kim Echlin’s Featured Book Speak, Silenceįrom the internationally bestselling and Giller-shortlisted author of The Disappeared, an astounding, poetic novel about war and loss, suffering and courage, and the strength of women through it all.
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