When I showed you what the world sounds like
A novel
FROM WITHIN THE SILENCE
„My mother was different from other mothers. She had white knots in her ears.” What does it feel like for a child explaining the world to a mother who cannot understand it? The father has absconded, and the two women in 1960s Athens don’t have much left to lose. Ten magnificent hats made by the mother are the price for two passports. In Munich, foreign challenges await: The daughter, in the role of her mother’s guardian, has to interpret for her while the mother wants to protect her daughter. But new doors open because some people don’t need words to show their love. In a poetically humorous tone, Eleni Torossi leads us into an unknown world of intimate gestures and a tender secret language.
Eleni Torossi was born in Athens and has been living in Munich since 1968. While studying political science, she already worked for the Bavarian Broadcasting Company. She has written social and cultural articles, radio stories, and audio plays and has published numerous books. She writes in Greek and German. In 2006, she was awarded the „CIVIS – Europe‘s Media Prize for Integration”. For her role as an intercultural mediator she also received the German Federal Cross of Merit in 2009. In the same year, LangenMüller published her book Why Aunt Iphigenia Presented Me With a Cook. www.torossi.com
FROM WITHIN THE SILENCE
„My mother was different from other mothers. She had white knots in her ears.” What does it feel like for a child explaining the world to a mother who cannot understand it? The father has absconded, and the two women in 1960s Athens don’t have much left to lose. Ten magnificent hats made by the mother are the price for two passports. In Munich, foreign challenges await: The daughter, in the role of her mother’s guardian, has to interpret for her while the mother wants to protect her daughter. But new doors open because some people don’t need words to show their love. In a poetically humorous tone, Eleni Torossi leads us into an unknown world of intimate gestures and a tender secret language.
- A touching mother-daughter-relationship, laconically told
- Children of a Lesser God, Beyond Silence – the subject of deafness is deeply moving
Eleni Torossi was born in Athens and has been living in Munich since 1968. While studying political science, she already worked for the Bavarian Broadcasting Company. She has written social and cultural articles, radio stories, and audio plays and has published numerous books. She writes in Greek and German. In 2006, she was awarded the „CIVIS – Europe‘s Media Prize for Integration”. For her role as an intercultural mediator she also received the German Federal Cross of Merit in 2009. In the same year, LangenMüller published her book Why Aunt Iphigenia Presented Me With a Cook. www.torossi.com
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