Silencio

Silencio is a Spanish-language literary novel by Christian Asevedo.What if the greatest secret of your life was not what you did, but what you kept silent?Daniel Sandoval is in his forties, living in Bergen with a family who loves him but has never fully understood the shadows he carries. One day, a letter arrives from Chile, forcing him to confront a past buried in fear: a trial for crimes committed during the dictatorship, a name he swore never to pronounce again, and the echo of a childhood scarred by state violence.As the archives of the past are opened in Santiago, his wife and children in Norway discover that the life they shared with him only revealed the surface. Silencio is told through multiple voices and generations - an intimate, deeply human story about what we inherit without wanting to, and what we conceal because we never learned how to say it.Can a family survive a truth that arrives too late?And can a country?Language: Spanish. Genre: Literary fiction / Novel.Silencio