The Boy and the Sea of silence
by M
About This Novel
"The Boy and the Sea of Silence" is Siegfried Lenz's masterpiece of a novel that was translated and published in mainland China for the first time. It has long been included in the must-read list for German middle school students. Twelve-year-old Ana is the only survivor of a family tragedy. He comes to his adoptive parents' home on a cold winter day and begins to live with the three children in this family. The sensitive and melancholy boy loves the sea as deeply as his father, but his father, who experienced the stormy waves, did not die in a shipwreck. Why and how he led his family to death is the eternal pain in Ana's heart, and it is also the biggest secret hidden deep in the boy's heart. The past is like a nightmare that haunts Ana. He repeatedly struggles to get out of the pain, but he continues to suffer misunderstandings and failures in his true friendship and young love. The fate of the two generations reached the same juncture, and Ana walked onto the boat alone in the storm...
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