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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Sonam and the Silence
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'In Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, Sonam's world is dark and silent. Then one day, she follows a magical, melodious sound to a walled garden, and her world is silent no more. The sound is music, and it lifts her up amongst the stars and takes her deeper than the tree roots in the earth. How can she hold on to this feeling in a world where music is forbidden? A lyrical fable-like story about the irrepressible power of music.'

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    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2018 .
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      • Published August 2018.

      ISBN: 9781760293666
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Works about this Work

Music and Silence with Eddie Ayres Joy Lawn (interviewer), 2019 single work interview
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 34 no. 1 2019; (p. 8) 'Eddie Ayres is a highly regarded ABC Radio National breakfast radio broad-caster. musician and music teacher. He was known as Emma Ayres before transitioning from female to male just before his fiftieth birthday. He has taught music in Kabul. Afghanistan, and has written two memoirs for adults or mature teens. Cadence (2014) is about his 16.000 km cycling trip from England to Hong Kong with a violin and Danger Music (2017) is a powerful reflection of the joy and horror of his year in Kabul.'  (Introduction)
 
[Review] Sonam and the Silence Rayma Turton , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 33 no. 3 2018; (p. 34)
— Review of Sonam and the Silence Eddie Ayres , 2018 single work picture book
[Review] Sonam and the Silence Rayma Turton , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 33 no. 3 2018; (p. 34)
— Review of Sonam and the Silence Eddie Ayres , 2018 single work picture book
Music and Silence with Eddie Ayres Joy Lawn (interviewer), 2019 single work interview
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , March vol. 34 no. 1 2019; (p. 8) 'Eddie Ayres is a highly regarded ABC Radio National breakfast radio broad-caster. musician and music teacher. He was known as Emma Ayres before transitioning from female to male just before his fiftieth birthday. He has taught music in Kabul. Afghanistan, and has written two memoirs for adults or mature teens. Cadence (2014) is about his 16.000 km cycling trip from England to Hong Kong with a violin and Danger Music (2017) is a powerful reflection of the joy and horror of his year in Kabul.'  (Introduction)
 
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