Tell Others

<b>From the internationally bestselling author of <i>The Disappeared </i>comes a profound meditation on the cultural impact of storytelling and testimony in five intimate and illuminating essays.</b><br><br>In this moving collection, critically acclaimed novelist Kim Echlin examines how we turn to literature to measure our lives against the darknesses of our time. <i>Tell Others</i> explores how literature resists silencing and repression with truth and imagination.<br><br>Echlin skillfully blends her lived experience in different parts of the world—teaching in post-revolutionary China, researching war crimes in the former Yugoslavia, studying under one of Canada’s most respected Elders, Basil H. Johnston—with wide-ranging reading that offers solace and highlights the possibility to transform outrage into understanding and resistance.<br><br>Looking to her favourite writers—Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, Ma Jian, Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, and Haruki Murakami, to name a few—Echlin grapples in fresh ways with tyranny, war, sexual violence, and censorship to bear witness to the past and look to the future. Written in characteristically unsparing and evocative prose, <i>Tell Others</i> is an invitation to all readers to acknowledge histories that are difficult to see and to make meaning from the stories that buried bones tell.<br><br><i>The author proceeds for this book will be donated to PEN Canada and PEN International.</i>