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Miyara: Where Silence Speaks - Softcover

Singhal, M.K.

 
9798162647713: Miyara: Where Silence Speaks

Synopsis

A signal from beyond the galaxy. A girl who has never spoken a word. And the only person on Earth who can answer.

Eleven seconds of static. Nineteen years of silence. One note that refuses to fade.

In the Kerala town of Kozhikode, a festival of silence has become everyone's pride. Tara Nair has never spoken. She listens instead, to the crows on the veranda, to the old brass chime outside her window, to a world that has always answered her more gently than people do.
Then, on the stage of the Miyara festival, with twelve borrowed tuning forks laid out before her, one note refuses to fade. Something is answering, from beyond the Milky Way, from a place no one has seen and a people no one has ever heard.
Behind a locked wing of a grand old house, a reclusive Englishman has guarded a silent machine for ten years. A Councillor who would give up everything to keep his family together is about to learn what family really costs. A retired engineer has waited his whole life for exactly this. Quiet government officials say they only want to help. Private companies want to own the answer. And in the middle of it all stands a nineteen-year-old who, for the first time, has something the whole world wants to hear.
As the cameras close in and the clock runs down, Tara must decide what she owes a signal that has been listening for nineteen years, and what she owes the people who raised her. Because the message that reached her was not the only one. A second message, one she was too weak to hear, is still waiting to be read.

MIYARA: WHERE SILENCE SPEAKS is a luminous, suspenseful and deeply human novel of first contact, found family and the courage to answer. It is a story for readers who love quiet wonder, emotional depth and mysteries that unfold one signal at a time.

What you will find inside:

  • A heartfelt first-contact story set in modern Kerala, India
  • A non-verbal heroine whose silence is her greatest strength
  • A warm, funny, tightly knit community, and a government that comes knocking
  • A mystery that builds chapter by chapter to an ending you will not forget
A novel about family, loneliness and the courage to answer.
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