Copyright

First published in English in Great Britain in 2000
This edition first published in 2001 by
Canongate Books Ltd,
14 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1TE

First published in Danish in 1998 by
Munksgaard Rosinante, Copenhagen

This digital edition first published in 2015
by Canongate Books

The moral right of Jens Christian Grøndahl and Anne Born to be identified as respectively the author and translator of the work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

Silence in October was translated with the support of the
European Commission and the Ariane Programme 1999

The publishers gratefully acknowledge general subsidy from the Scottish Arts Council towards the Canongate International series

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library

ISBN 978 1 84767 747 1