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The novel consists of his inner monologues--wonderfully handled by Grondahl ranging, as they do, back and forth in time, in long, flowing, allusive paragraphs--his thoughts on art, life and the women he has loved. Ines broke his heart as a young man who loved too hard, too overwhelmingly; Astrid put him back together. He questions why Astrid has gone, whether she's left for good, why he did not stop her, what their relationship was really about, what its strengths were and what he's "about" without her, without the ongoing conversation that is their relationship.
This is an absolutely superb novel. Anne Born's translation rarely wobbles and the full power of Grondahl's warm and penetrating prose comes over throughout. It is always difficult to write about love and relationships without relying on clichés, reverting back to truisms and settling for the approximate, but here we have writing of precision, profoundity and earnestness. Grondahl's work is quietly awe-inspiring and Silence in October is a tremendous novel that will leave a deep impression on any reader. --Mark Thwaite
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Book Description Paper Back. Condition: As New. First Edition. 284 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout. Silence in october is a spellbinding novel by the danish writer jens christian grondahl. This is a story about marriage and love and loss told y a middle-aged art historian whose wife astrid has left home. In the silence of his copenhagen apartment he decribes his relationship with astrid, with their children and friends, with his precious lovers. Momet by moment the puzzle of his life takes shape. Seller Inventory # 014201
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 284p green and blue paperback with laminated cover, first Australian edition, read once, pages clean, signed by the author, a very good copy Language: English. Seller Inventory # 80003