Silence

The action of this novel by Peter Heg reveals in today's Copenhagen, shortly after an earthquake. A famous clown and musician, a devotee of Bach and a poker player, deprived of citizenship in his native country, 42-year-old Kasper Krone is endowed with an extraordinary sense of hearing: every person sounds to him in a certain tone. The sound overload of the modern city and the disorder of his own life make Kasper constantly strive for silence - a high, divine silence, almost disappeared from the surrounding world. One day he finds an uninvited guest in his home - a nine-year-old girl, radiating silence around her - a gift akin to his own...