Reviewing The Silent Land in the Los Angeles Times, Chris Barton described the book as 'quietly creepy'. VanderMeer said the book is all about memory, and he praised the way Joyce weaves this into the story. Writing in The Washington Post, he said Joyce's blending of 'the bizarre and the personal' is reminiscent of the works of English novelist Ian McEwan and Japanese writer Haruki Murakami.

Kaveney stated that 'Joyce writes about moments of spiritual insight with a novelist's eye for the shape of moments and a poet's sense of how they feel.' American author and critic Jeff VanderMeer also called The Silent Land a 'tour de force'. She said it is 'a study in classic supernatural fiction' that is 'perfectly paced' and told with 'clarity' and 'precision'. In a review of The Silent Land in The Independent, British writer and critic Roz Kaveney called Joyce's 'near-perfect novella. The couple deduces that they died in the avalanche and are stuck on their own in an afterlife. They also find they cannot leave the town or communicate with the outside world. Time appears to have stopped: candles do not burn down, food in the hotel kitchen remains fresh. They assume it has been evacuated because of the avalanche, but are soon disturbed by strange observations. They manage to free themselves and return to the town, but find it silent and deserted. Jake and Zoe, a young married couple, are buried by an avalanche while skiing near the fictional ski resort town of Saint-Bernard-en-Haut in the French Pyrenees. The book was translated into French by Louise Malagoli as Au cœur du silence, and published in February 2016 by Éditions Gallimard. It was nominated for the 2011 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, the August Derleth Award for Best Novel, and the Shirley Jackson Award.

The Silent Land was generally well received by critics. They free themselves, but find the world around them silent and devoid of people. It is about a young married couple who are buried by an avalanche while skiing in the French Pyrenees. It was first published in the United Kingdom in November 2010 by Victor Gollancz Ltd, and in March 2011 in the United States by Doubleday. The Silent Land is a horror fantasy novel by English writer Graham Joyce.

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