A tale of love that transcends sound, silence, and tragedy. In the days before WWI, Grania O'Neill, deaf since childhood, meets hearing Jim Lloyd. In wonderment, the two create a new emotional vocabulary. But two weeks after they marry, Jim leaves for war, and they're pulled to the center of cataclysmic events that will alter civilization forever. A finalist for the Canadian Giller Prize. "Brilliantly described sights and sounds."—Booklist