About the book: 2012 / For the first time in Russian - a touching story of love and the greatest test that can threaten it. A story that so captivated legendary editor Jason Kaufman—who made a star out of Dan Brown and now works with Joyce—that the film rights to The Silent Land were sold off the manuscript; The director will be James Marsh, an Oscar winner for the drama “The Tightrope Walker” (his new film “Shadow Dancer” thundered at the Sundance and Berlinale festivals in early 2012). A young English couple comes to ski in the French Alps - and falls under an avalanche. Having dug out from under the snow, they get to their hotel - and find it completely empty; like the whole village. They sit and wait for salvation, but salvation does not come; they try to get out to the people on their own, but every time the path leads them to the same empty village. Strange visions test the strength of their love and reason, gradually suggesting that no one could emerge from this avalanche alive, and the laws of nature seem to have stopped working... Graham Joyce is a bright star of modern British literature, a subtle psychologist and master of a fascinating plot, author, who, according to the eminent Jonathan Carroll, writes exactly those books that we spend our entire lives hoping to find, but very rarely find. He masterfully dissects fears and intra-family tension, delicately depicts the smoldering eroticism and vague sense of threat.