Silence Has a Homeland

By Jose Flandez

In the Dominican Republic of 1958, silence wasn't a choice: it was an instinct for survival. Under the relentless gaze of the Trujillo regime, every word, every gesture, could be fatal. But something also germinated in that silence: memory, dignity, resistance.

Silence Has a Homeland is an ensemble novel that narrates, with a sober tone and sensorial depth, the intertwined lives of ordinary men and women: a young man who cleans in a grocery store and learns to listen to the unspoken; a teacher who sows hidden words; a nurse who turns wounds into gestures of care; a bureaucrat who begins to awaken.

Without fanfare or rhetoric, the novel reveals how history is also built from the small, from what is not shouted. Because sometimes, the most revolutionary thing is simply daring to speak without trembling.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FGQN2ZG6
• ISBN13: 9798290867991
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 826 Pages
• Weight: 2.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"