期刊名称：Via Panorâmica : Revista Electrónica de Estudos Anglo-Americanos
电子版ISSN：1645-9652
出版年度：2014
卷号：3
期号：3
出版社：Biblioteca Digital da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto
摘要：When taking for the first time The Book of Silence, by Sara Maitland, after looking at the sober cover, and reading the first sentence, the feeling is that it is a novel: “It is early morning. It is a morning of extraordinary radiance…” (Maitland, A Book of Silence 1). This first impression is further reinforced by the several initial references, namely to: “small birds (…) chirping occasionally”; by the “pair of crows [that] flapped past making their raucous cough noises”; and by the overall mental picture glimpsed after the description of “the seashore”, which seems to transport the reader into a wonderful world, full of beauty and tranquillity
