The Silence Hotel

The Silence Hotel novel tells the story of a broken-hearted man who goes out into a destroyed world, and his weapon is a drill. And with an irresistible motive, he repairs the things he finds along his way. Younas Ibenseer is a man on the verge of forty-nine years old, divorced, discovering that he is not the biological father of his daughter. Then we realize that he has drowned in an existential crisis, and lost his desire to live. And he leaves us with the big question: can any of us recover from having been born? It is a novel about a man's ability to renew himself, and rediscover meaning, even if it comes from the depths of despair. The Silence Hotel novel by author Odor Ava Alawfutier won the Nordic Council Literature Prize, and the Icelandic Book Award for Best Novel. It was chosen by The Independent as one of the ten best novels worldwide for 2018.