The Architecture of Silence (eBook)

A Contamination of Rooms

Lilly Heller (Autor)

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2025 | 1. Auflage
95 Seiten
Publishdrive (Verlag)
978-0-00-109434-5 (ISBN)

Infos

A house, emptied of life but not of memory, waits in the deep, frozen blue of a failing day. The key scrapes in the lock, and a gloved hand pushes open a door to a silence that is heavy, static, and absolute.

For the man who returns, this is not a homecoming. it is a ritual. he moves through the frozen rooms on an obsessive, mechanical check, testing every lock, every latch, every seal against the outside. but the house is not sealed. the cold is a presence, not an absence, and it pours in from a failed window, a draft under a door, and an open vent in the black, itching darkness of the attic.

each room offers its own contamination. the living room is shrouded in white sheets like solidified cold. the kitchen holds a single, bright blue spoon, a stark reminder of a life now absent. the upstairs rooms are filled with the dust of memory, a slick, grey smear that gets on his hands and will not come clean. this is the architecture of silence, a minute, tactile exploration of loss.

lilly heller's haunting novel maps the internal landscape of grief onto the physical space of a home. the narrator's compulsive check is a desperate search for control, a way to seal the unsealable. but as he moves from the attic's fiberglass itch to the basement's damp wood, the contamination only deepens, blurring the line between the house's decay and his own.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.11.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• ISBN-10: 0-00-109434-3 / 0001094343
• ISBN-13: 978-0-00-109434-5 / 9780001094345