The silence of the trees

Description

The violinist Andreas Hymer arrives in a besieged city to give a concert and recover Amela Jensen. There, in addition to, thanks to Ernest Bolsi, than, defying the bombs, acts as a guide in 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 let them know about their situation. As if dealing with the heart of a tragedy, their voices embody the emotions, the ability to survive and fight, the daily misery of those who have to face death with the only weapon they have left: the will to live. The silence of the trees 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 noblest. With the sober and elliptical style that characterizes his work, Eduard Márquez has done a contemporary rereading of the myth of Orpheus: a beautiful parable about the power of music and the strength of love.