For six centuries, the Quiet Mandate has ruled the Dominion of Veyrun-3: no voice, no music, no unscripted sound. Ashen Sign is the only language the law permits, and the Unbroken Line - the sovereign bloodline that must marry only itself - is the only family entrusted to rule. Princess Astra Veyrun has spent twenty-two years perfecting the performance of a woman who was born, like everyone else, unable to hear.
She is not.
When a ship of outsiders crashes onto the plain outside the capital - people who speak instead of sign, who make sound as easily as breathing - Astra is given the one task no one else in the court can perform: talk to them without anyone finding out how. Rhea Calloway, the outsiders' linguist, has no idea she's teaching a member of the ruling family the very thing the Mandate exists to erase.
As Astra is pulled deeper into a betrothal built on bloodline law, a resistance that knows more about her than she knows about herself, and a first contact her regent uncle would rather end in silence, she starts to understand that the Mandate was never protecting the Dominion from disorder. It was built to protect something else - and Astra's borrowed silence has kept her standing exactly where its architects wanted her.
The Hush is a novel about the empires built on the things we're taught never to say - and the cost of being the first person who says them anyway.
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Edward C. Distel writes fiction shaped by memory, exile, war, and the quiet lives history often forgets. Raised in a multilingual household and deeply influenced by the immigrant experience, his work explores loyalty, identity, survival, and the stories people carry in silence.
Drawn to both novels and short fiction, Distel believes the most powerful stories are often the most intimate. His writing blends literary realism with psychological depth, creating characters marked as much by what they cannot say as by what they do.
He prefers to let his characters speak for themselves.
These are his first published works, though far from his only stories.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. For six centuries, the Quiet Mandate has ruled the Dominion of Veyrun-3: no voice, no music, no unscripted sound. Ashen Sign is the only language the law permits, and the Unbroken Line - the sovereign bloodline that must marry only itself - is the only family entrusted to rule. Princess Astra Veyrun has spent twenty-two years perfecting the performance of a woman who was born, like everyone else, unable to hear. She is not. When a ship of outsiders crashes onto the plain outside the capital - people who speak instead of sign, who make sound as easily as breathing - Astra is given the one task no one else in the court can perform: talk to them without anyone finding out how. Rhea Calloway, the outsiders' linguist, has no idea she's teaching a member of the ruling family the very thing the Mandate exists to erase. As Astra is pulled deeper into a betrothal built on bloodline law, a resistance that knows more about her than she knows about herself, and a first contact her regent uncle would rather end in silence, she starts to understand that the Mandate was never protecting the Dominion from disorder. It was built to protect something else - and Astra's borrowed silence has kept her standing exactly where its architects wanted her. The Hush is a novel about the empires built on the things we're taught never to say - and the cost of being the first person who says them anyway. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9798235590809
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. For six centuries, the Quiet Mandate has ruled the Dominion of Veyrun-3: no voice, no music, no unscripted sound. Ashen Sign is the only language the law permits, and the Unbroken Line - the sovereign bloodline that must marry only itself - is the only family entrusted to rule. Princess Astra Veyrun has spent twenty-two years perfecting the performance of a woman who was born, like everyone else, unable to hear. She is not. When a ship of outsiders crashes onto the plain outside the capital - people who speak instead of sign, who make sound as easily as breathing - Astra is given the one task no one else in the court can perform: talk to them without anyone finding out how. Rhea Calloway, the outsiders' linguist, has no idea she's teaching a member of the ruling family the very thing the Mandate exists to erase. As Astra is pulled deeper into a betrothal built on bloodline law, a resistance that knows more about her than she knows about herself, and a first contact her regent uncle would rather end in silence, she starts to understand that the Mandate was never protecting the Dominion from disorder. It was built to protect something else - and Astra's borrowed silence has kept her standing exactly where its architects wanted her. The Hush is a novel about the empires built on the things we're taught never to say - and the cost of being the first person who says them anyway. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9798235590809
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