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SUMMARY:A Discussion with Kim Echlin
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Internationally bestselling\, award-winnin
 g and Giller-shortlisted author <a href="https://www.thecanadianencycloped
 ia.ca/en/article/kim-echlin">Kim Echlin</a> of The Disappeared discusses h
 er latest novel <a href="https://encore.kpl.org/iii/encore_wpl/search/C__S
 kim%20echlin__Orightresult__U?lang=EN"><em>Speak\, Silence</em></a>\, a di
 fficult novel about the rape of Bosnian women as a war crime\, loss\, suff
 ering and courage\, and the strength of women through it all.</p>\n<p>Prai
 se for <em>Speak\, Silence</em></p>\n<p>&ldquo\;Writing about living throu
 gh a war draws on some of our most volatile emotions and fears&mdash\;the 
 balance between trauma and sensationalism is a precarious one. Writing abo
 ut the rage and humiliation of women raped in war takes this already preca
 rious balance several degrees further. Speak\, Silence ushers us into a co
 mmunity of women who guide us with sensitivity\, clarity and love through 
 their resistance to being stereotyped as victims.&rdquo\;<br />&mdash\;Ell
 en Elias-Bursac\, translator of South Slavic languages and author of Trans
 lating Evidence and Interpreting Testimony at a War Crimes Tribunal</p>\n<
 p>&ldquo\;Between 1991 and 1995\, an estimated 60\,000 women were raped in
  wars in the former Yugoslavia. But the women did not allow these rapes to
  become an historical footnote or &lsquo\;collateral damage.&rsquo\; They 
 witnessed their ordeal in The Hague&rsquo\;s International Tribunal. Thank
 s to these women\, the world understood&mdash\;for the first time&mdash\;r
 ape as a weapon of war and found the accused guilty of a Crime Against Hum
 anity. This carefully researched and well-crafted novel\, based on these t
 rue events\, is an impressive monument to the women.&rdquo\;<br />&mdash\;
 Slavenka Drakulić\, journalist and author of They Would Never Hurt a F
 ly</p>\n<p>This event is presented in partnership with <a href="http://www
 .wordsworthbooks.com/">Words Worth Books</a>.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Registrants w
 ill receive an e-mail 24 hours before the start of the program with an inv
 itation to join.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Programmer: Nancy</p>\n<p><img src="https:
 //wpl.libnet.info/images/managers/wpl/Kim_Echlin_Communico.png" alt="Kim E
 chlin" title="Kim Echlin" width="650" height="450" /></p>\nhttps://wpl.lib
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