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Text copyright © 2012 by Eduardo Strauch Urioste, Mireya Soriano
Translation copyright © 2019 by Jennie Erikson
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Originally published as Desde el silencio
, Eduardo Strauch Urioste con Mireya Soriano (Montevideo: Random House Mondadori, Editorial Sudamericana Uruguaya S.A., 2012). Translated from Spanish by Jennie Erikson. First published in English by AmazonCrossing in 2019.
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ISBN-13: 9781542042956
ISBN-10: 154204295X
Cover design by Rex Bonomelli
To my two baby granddaughters—You’ve got a friend in me. And to my wife, Laura—Keep on being yourself, never minding what other people say.
—Eduardo Strauch

CONTENTS
1 SILENCE
2 THE MOUNTAIN
3 THE BODY
4 DEATH
5 THE MIND
6 HOPE
7 FEAR
8 REBIRTH
9 LOVE
10 TIME
11 TRANSCENDENCE
12 NATURE
13 FAMILY
14 MYSTERY
15 MEMORY
EPILOGUE
AFTERWORD BY LAURA BRAGA
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR

1
SILENCE
Each moment was different from the one before, but each had its own unique threat, its own unmistakable sign that something serious was happening. The plane was still moving, so I knew it hadn’t yet crashed against one of those peaks that had come into view much too close to the little window I had been resting my head against only seconds earlier. The dark mountain faces, partially covered in snow, which rose up and vanished rapidly behind the clouds, had in a single heartbeat eradicated my sleepiness as the furious turbulence threw us about in air pockets, each one deeper than the last.
The first silence arrived together with stillness after the shaking that had been tossing us about violently during that brief yet eternal time when I awaited death, eyes closed, huddled in my seat, listening to the deep roar of the engines and their final, desperate screeching. There was a strong impact, followed by other terrifying and incomprehensible noises, and suddenly I smelled gasoline and felt frigid air whipping against my face.
But the first silence was not the silence of death, although at first I thought it was and felt amazement that consciousness still existed, even without life. I opened my eyes. I ............

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