by Gaspar Hernández · Destino CAT · tapa dura · ISBN 9788497101035
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«El silenci» is the novel by Gaspar Hernández, published by Destino CAT in hardcover (224 pages, in Catalan).
A man spends the night in a room on Formentera talking with Umiko, a sleeping young Japanese woman who believes in spiritual healing and challenges conventional medicine in the face of her cancer. Among their conversations emerge illness, spontaneous remissions, self-help and meditation, until she asks him for an act that goes beyond words.
Novel winner of the Premi Josep Pla 2009. Belongs to the L'Àncora collection.
Spanish writer, journalist and literary critic
