On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Shiva Shankar<[email protected]> wrote: > > The Weight of Silence: Invisible Children of India > > A Nonfiction Book by Shelley Seale > > Dog's Eye View Media proudly presents a true-life story straight from > today's headlines. Shelley Seale's narrative non-fiction book follows the > lives of just such children as those brought to life in the movie Slumdog > Millionaire. The Weight of Silence: Invisible Children of India depicts > Shelley's journey into orphanages and through the streets and slums of India > where millions of innocent children live without families. > > During her three years of writing The Weight of Silence, Shelley has > befriended and told the stories of many such children - and has borne > witness to their struggles first hand. Foreword by Joan Collins; cover photo > by Craig Lakey. Endorsements by Geralyn Dreyfous (Executive Producer of Born > Into Brothels), Dominique Lapierre (Author of City of Joy), Save The > Children, Human Rights Watch and more. > > Amidst the growing prosperity of India, there is an entire generation of > parentless children growing up. They are everywhere. They fill the streets, > the railway stations, the shanty villages. Some scrounge through trash for > newspapers, rags or anything they can sell at traffic intersections. Others, > often as young as two or three years old, beg. Many are homeless, > overflowing orphanages and other institutional homes to live on the streets > where they are extremely vulnerable to being trafficked into child labor if > they're lucky, brothels if they're not. They are invisible children; their > plight goes virtually unnoticed, their voices silenced. > > Little did I know how much they would change my life. Their hope and > resilience amazed me time and time again; the ability of their spirits to > overcome crippling challenges inspired me. Even in the most deprived > circumstances they are still kids - they laugh and play, perhaps far less > frequently than others; they develop strong bonds and relationships to > create family where none exists; and most of all they have an enormous > amount of love to give. > > The Weight of Silence: Invisible Children of India is a non-fiction > narrative that gives a strong and hopeful voice to its most vulnerable > citizens. The stories told in this book do not belong to me. They were given > to me as a gift, often because I was the only person who had ever asked. >
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