The Eighth Language
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Amara speaks seven languages, but she has not spoken aloud to another human being in three years. After surviving the 1994 Rwandan genocide as a child, language became her refuge, and then her heaviest burden.
For twenty years, she worked in a glass booth at the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague. There, she translated the testimonies of survivors and perpetrators with agonising neutrality - even the cold, administrative confession of her own father's killer.
Now living in self-imposed silence on the remote Isle of Skye, Amara must confront the violent cost of bearing witness. The Eighth Language is a haunting exploration of grief, memory, and the desperate search for a self that outlives the unspeakable.
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