
Not Even Silence Stayed Empty (eBook, ePUB)
The House We Are Building
PAYBACK Punkte
2 °P sammeln!
Elara was born into a country that chased her voice before it ever had a chance to rise. Her father, a sea captain, nearly died the day she was born-stabbed outside their home after a violent dispute between two families. From that first moment, Elara's life was shaped by love and conflict colliding in the same breath.As she grows up amid the shadows of war, betrayal, and political persecution, Elara becomes a painter and poet-a woman of sharp silence and fierce tenderness. Her art becomes a vessel for truth, and her voice one that quietly resists the erasure she faces.But when love returns to...
Elara was born into a country that chased her voice before it ever had a chance to rise. Her father, a sea captain, nearly died the day she was born-stabbed outside their home after a violent dispute between two families. From that first moment, Elara's life was shaped by love and conflict colliding in the same breath.
As she grows up amid the shadows of war, betrayal, and political persecution, Elara becomes a painter and poet-a woman of sharp silence and fierce tenderness. Her art becomes a vessel for truth, and her voice one that quietly resists the erasure she faces.
But when love returns to her life in the form of Nan, a childhood friend turned intelligence officer, Elara is thrust into a new kind of vulnerability. Their reunion in Washington, D.C.-tender, sensual, and long-awaited-sparks not only a deep reconnection but also the beginning of a family she never dared to dream of.
Carrying twins and secrets, Elara chooses to give birth far from her homeland, where her daughters Anny and Camille, and later her sons Aris and Alexander, can live without the fear that shaped her. Yet trauma lingers. Her children grow up among her paintings and stories, unaware of the full truths hidden within them-until they are old enough to discover the house she has been building for them all along.
Told through intimate chapters, poetic fragments, remembered letters, and visual metaphors, Not Even Silence Stayed Empty is a novel about legacy, resilience, and what it means to rebuild from memory. The house is not literal. It is made of language, history, silence, and love.
And in the attic of that house, Elara leaves her voice-for her children, and for anyone who needs to remember that silence is not the end of the story. It is what we build beyond it that matters.
As she grows up amid the shadows of war, betrayal, and political persecution, Elara becomes a painter and poet-a woman of sharp silence and fierce tenderness. Her art becomes a vessel for truth, and her voice one that quietly resists the erasure she faces.
But when love returns to her life in the form of Nan, a childhood friend turned intelligence officer, Elara is thrust into a new kind of vulnerability. Their reunion in Washington, D.C.-tender, sensual, and long-awaited-sparks not only a deep reconnection but also the beginning of a family she never dared to dream of.
Carrying twins and secrets, Elara chooses to give birth far from her homeland, where her daughters Anny and Camille, and later her sons Aris and Alexander, can live without the fear that shaped her. Yet trauma lingers. Her children grow up among her paintings and stories, unaware of the full truths hidden within them-until they are old enough to discover the house she has been building for them all along.
Told through intimate chapters, poetic fragments, remembered letters, and visual metaphors, Not Even Silence Stayed Empty is a novel about legacy, resilience, and what it means to rebuild from memory. The house is not literal. It is made of language, history, silence, and love.
And in the attic of that house, Elara leaves her voice-for her children, and for anyone who needs to remember that silence is not the end of the story. It is what we build beyond it that matters.
Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, D ausgeliefert werden.