The Silent Land
By (Author) Graham Joyce
Orion Publishing Co
Gollancz
10th January 2012
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.92
Short-listed for World Fantasy Award 2011 (UK)
Paperback
256
Width 133mm, Height 196mm, Spine 17mm
215g
THE SILENT LAND is a brooding and tender look at love and whether it can survive the greatest challenge we will ever face. The film rights have been optioned by the producer of Brokeback Mountain.
A young couple are caught in an avalanche during a ski-ing holiday in the French Alps. They struggle back to the village and find it deserted. As the days go by they wait for rescue, then try to leave. But each time they find themselves back in the village.And, increasingly, they are plagued by visions and dreams and the realisation that perhaps no-one could have survived the avalanche.Graham Joyce was born into a Coventry mining family and now lives in Leicester. In addition to writing he teaches a Creative Writing course at Nottingham University. He is a multiple winner of the World and British Fantasy Awards and has been shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year.