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Silence

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Silence
19.99 €
Peter Høeg's novel is set in present-day Copenhagen, shortly after an earthquake. A famous clown and musician, an admirer of Bach and a poker player who has been stripped of his 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 pitch. The sound overload of the modern city and the unsettledness of his own life make Kasper constantly strive for silence - a high, divine silence that has almost disappeared from the world around him. One day he catches an uninvited guest in his home - a nine-year-old girl radiating silence around her - a gift akin to his own...
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