Critical Praise

"This intricate tale moves across continents and time as it maps the reaches of the soul."

——Vogue Australia

"Although few of us have the inclination to truly take on life as a journey - we should at least find reasons to read books such as this one."

——Melbourne Herald Sun

"The Seduction of Silence is a work of persuasive imagination...such scope, power and narrative charm...ample and fascinating."

——Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's List

"Passionate prose, which although lacking the mad pyrotechnics of Rushdie’s wordplay, is nonetheless just as intense."

——Melbourne Age

"A many-layered feast of a book."

——Adelaide Advertiser

"There is real enchantment here...[in] prose as vivid and arresting as a marigold. I couldn’t put it down."

——Geraldine Brooks, author of Year of Wonders and Nine Parts of Desire

"An unexpected delight... [Le Hunte] gives new meaning to the search for spiritual fulfillment."

——Lalita Tademy, author of Oprah Book Club selection Cane River

"...a glorious mélange of family saga, social commentary, and treatise on spirituality."

——Booklist

"A splendidly conceived saga weaving the history of an entire culture into the portrait of one family: vivid, compelling, utterly fascinating."

——Kirkus Reviews

"A lovely… ambitious novel …Le Hunte threads events together with a confident, steady hand…."

——Washington Post