After eighteen years of marriage, an art historian wakes up one morning to find his wife standing in the bedroom doorway with her bags packed, leaving him with no explanation. Alone in his Copenhagen apartment, he tries to make sense of his enigmatic marriage and life. Memories of driving a cab, quiet walks in the snow, and intense sojourns in Paris and New York pass through his mind in fleeting images. The more he thinks of his wife, however, the more mysterious she becomes to him. Slowly he realizes that two people can live together for years without ever really knowing each other, and that the most important encounters in one's life are dictated by chance, not design. Exploring with great subtlety the secret, unpredictable connections between men and women, Silence in October is a psychological novel of immense acuity and masterful storytelling.

J.C.龔達爾（Jens Christian Grøndahl）

1959年生於哥本哈根，丹麥當今最重要的作傢，在歐洲文壇享有盛名，被盛贊為“文學界的伯格曼”。作品曾多次入圍“都柏林IMPAC”“梅迪西文學奬”“費米娜文學奬”等重要國際文學奬，並獲得“大使文學奬”“金桂冠文學奬”等多項歐洲文學大奬。

《沉默的十月》是其跨入英語書市的第一本小說，也讓他躋身國際文壇名傢之列。正如法國《世界報》書評所言：“龔達爾捕捉瞭生命的中心！”他的作品是細讀人生不可或缺的指引。