Author | Luis Martín-Santos |
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Original title | Tiempo de silencio |
Country | Spain |
Language | Spanish |
Publisher | Seix Barral |
Publication date | 1962 |
Published in English | 23 September 1964 |
Pages | 222 |
Time of Silence (Spanish: Tiempo de silencio) is a 1962 novel by the Spanish writer Luis Martín-Santos.[1][2]
The novel is about the medical student Pedro, who studies cancer in mice, and his interactions with people in Madrid. An assistant wants to sell the mice illegally. Pedro's lower-class landlady tries to marry off her granddaughter. Pedro has an intellectual friend who achieves very little. Pedro becomes ensnared in a deadly drama when he performs an abortion on a girl who ends up dead. The girl's boyfriend then murders Pedro's fiancee.[3]
Kirkus Reviews wrote that the novel suffers from too much intellectualism, but that the depiction of Madrid gives it "a degree of power".[3]
The novel was the basis for the 1986 film Tiempo de Silencio.[4]