UNLV novelist Douglas Unger will give a reading from his latest novel, "Voices from Silence," on Sept. 14 as part of the University Forum lecture series.

"Voices from Silence," published this month by St. Martin's Press, concerns the efforts of one family to deal with the disappearance and subsequent deaths of two sons at the hands of a ruthless military regime in Argentina during the 1970s.

Unger based the book closely on the experiences of a real-life Argentine family with whom he lived as a high school exchange student. After he returned to school in the United States, two of his Argentine "brothers" disappeared. The body of one of the boys was returned to the family a year later. The fate of the other never was learned.

The reading, which is open to the public free of charge, is set for 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural History on the UNLV campus.

Unger was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for his first novel, "Leaving the Land," which was reprinted this summer by the University of Nebraska Press. He also is the author of "El Yanqui" and "The Turkey Wars."

The University Forum lecture series is sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts. Unger's reading also is being sponsored by the UNLV Foundation.

For additional information on Unger's reading, call 895-3558.