{"product_id":"the-voice-and-the-dark-a-gothic-psychological-novel-about-silence-longing-and-transformation-9798293329373","title":"The Voice and The Dark: A gothic psychological novel about silence, longing, and transformation.","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Amadeu Terceiro\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Romance - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy name is Alina O'Connell. I'm thirty-six years old, and I live alone in an apartment where time doesn't run - it walks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI'm autistic. I don't like rushing. Or noise. People out there seem to love urgencies, and I never understood how shouting solves anything. What I do well, I do in silence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI work from home. I restore old photographs. Fragments of the past speak louder to me than the rush of the present. I like worn wood, frosted glass, whistling kettles. The muffled sound of heavy curtains closing the world outside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat's how I live. Alone, but at peace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil I started hearing it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst, a whisper. Then, a question: \u003cbr\u003e- Are you there?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe voice came from silence, but felt alive. Ancient.\u003cbr\u003eAs if something had long been sealed - and now it saw me. Called me.\u003cbr\u003eAs if there was a cathedral inside me, and a door had opened.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI don't know why I answered.\u003cbr\u003eMaybe because no one else was asking.\u003cbr\u003eMaybe because, in the silence, any sound that names me... feels like affection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, something is calling me.\u003cbr\u003eSomething that sees inside my veins.\u003cbr\u003eAnd the worst part is - I see it back.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47779245523095,"sku":"9798293329373","price":898.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798293329373.webp?v=1778034687","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-voice-and-the-dark-a-gothic-psychological-novel-about-silence-longing-and-transformation-9798293329373","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}