by Eduard Márquez Taña · labutxaca · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788416600588
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The violinist Andreas Hymer arrives in a city besieged to give a concert and recover Amela Jensen. There, thanks to Ernest Bolsi, who defies the bombs and guides the empty music museum, he will find explanations and answers that will help him accept his past and understand the mysterious disappearance of his mother, Sophie Kesner. The intertwined stories of these four characters alternate with the letters that museum visitors write to family and friends to keep them abreast of their situation. As if it were the chorus of a tragedy, their voices capture the emotions, the capacity for survival and struggle, the daily misery of those who must face death with the only weapon they have left: the will to live.
'El silenci dels arbres' is a novel that tells us how beauty can survive war, how in extreme situations people are capable of producing the most abject but also the most noble. With the sober and elliptical style that characterizes his work, Eduard Márquez has made a contemporary rereading of the myth of Orpheus: a beautiful parable about the power of music and the strength of love.
