The Intriguing Stillness of the Tides
Hardcover
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Book & Bilias LLC
Published: Nov 30 2025
Pages: 334
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Intriguing Stillness of the Tides is a novel about what remains unspoken when life is forced to continue under altered conditions. It explores the quiet spaces where existence reorganizes itself without explanation, drama, or permission.
Rather than centering on the nearness of death, the novel turns its attention to the ordinary persistence of life in its presence - how intimacy, thought, and affection endure when language becomes insufficient and certainty dissolves. The narrative unfolds inwardly, privileging restraint over spectacle and silence over resolution.
In this stillness, meaning is not revealed through revelation or climax, but through attention: to gesture, to waiting, to the subtle moral weight of remaining present. Love does not disappear; it simply learns to speak less.
The Intriguing Stillness of the Tides is a work of literary fiction grounded in interiority, silence, and ethical restraint - a meditation on contingency, acceptance, and the quiet intelligence of living.
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