A Time To Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor
A lyrical travelogue in which the narrator retreats to several European monastic communities and records his impressions of their architecture, rituals, and the peculiar discipline of silence; through vivid sensory detail and wry reflection he explores how austerity, liturgy and enforced solitude reshape perception, reveal the intensity of small sounds and gestures, and provoke both admiration and uneasy self-examination about the value of withdrawal from modern life.
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- 1957
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