ISBN: 9798187814145 - the third syllable (6 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - SOME WORDS ARE ONLY DANGEROUS WHEN FINISHED. The road to Thamlong washed out years ago. The rain has never really stopped. And in a dead tea planter's library at the end of the ruined road, archival linguist Ishani Deb finds a collection arranged like a held breath: a bay of five hundred books sorted by weight. A field journal defaced at exactly the same word, every time. Nineteen reels of tape recorded by a woman who walked up the mountain in 1972 and never came down. The hill people speak of a forgotten order and a chant of three syllables. The first two are never printed in this book. The third is different for everyone who hears them - it is whatever you have refused to say. Ishani has been refusing for nine years. Now the catalogue she was hired to make is starting to look like a recitation. The red threads in the forest are moving in windless rain. And something patient beneath the mountain has turned its attention, at last, to the one reader it has waited a century to meet. A psychological-occult thriller of silence, guilt, and the sentence that holds your whole life up - until the day you finish it. Atmospheric folk horror in the tradition of slow-burn literary thrillers: no gore, no jump scares - only the rain, the fog, and the thing that listens when the rain rests. Includes illustrated archive material: the map of Thamlong, the razored ledger leaf, the Tape 9 spectrogram, and the mirror-written field notebook.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. SOME WORDS ARE ONLY DANGEROUS WHEN FINISHED. The road to Thamlong washed out years ago. The rain has never really stopped. And in a dead tea planter's library at the end of the ruined road, archival linguist Ishani Deb finds a collection arranged like a held breath: a bay of five hundred books sorted by weight. A field journal defaced at exactly the same word, every time. Nineteen reels of tape recorded by a woman who walked up the mountain in 1972 and never came down. The hill people speak of a forgotten order and a chant of three syllables. The first two are never printed in this book. The third is different for everyone who hears them - it is whatever you have refused to say. Ishani has been refusing for nine years. Now the catalogue she was hired to make is starting to look like a recitation. The red threads in the forest are moving in windless rain. And something patient beneath the mountain has turned its attention, at last, to the one reader it has waited a century to meet. A psychological-occult thriller of silence, guilt, and the sentence that holds your whole life up - until the day you finish it. Atmospheric folk horror in the tradition of slow-burn literary thrillers: no gore, no jump scares - only the rain, the fog, and the thing that listens when the rain rests. Includes illustrated archive material: the map of Thamlong, the razored ledger leaf, the Tape 9 spectrogram, and the mirror-written field notebook. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

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PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. SOME WORDS ARE ONLY DANGEROUS WHEN FINISHED. The road to Thamlong washed out years ago. The rain has never really stopped. And in a dead tea planter's library at the end of the ruined road, archival linguist Ishani Deb finds a collection arranged like a held breath: a bay of five hundred books sorted by weight. A field journal defaced at exactly the same word, every time. Nineteen reels of tape recorded by a woman who walked up the mountain in 1972 and never came down. The hill people speak of a forgotten order and a chant of three syllables. The first two are never printed in this book. The third is different for everyone who hears them - it is whatever you have refused to say. Ishani has been refusing for nine years. Now the catalogue she was hired to make is starting to look like a recitation. The red threads in the forest are moving in windless rain. And something patient beneath the mountain has turned its attention, at last, to the one reader it has waited a century to meet. A psychological-occult thriller of silence, guilt, and the sentence that holds your whole life up - until the day you finish it. Atmospheric folk horror in the tradition of slow-burn literary thrillers: no gore, no jump scares - only the rain, the fog, and the thing that listens when the rain rests. Includes illustrated archive material: the map of Thamlong, the razored ledger leaf, the Tape 9 spectrogram, and the mirror-written field notebook. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…