A novel by Tina Arsenovic
Everyone knows something.
No one is talking.
Elena Hart inherits a stone house in Sicily from a grandfather she never knew—and finds a village that remembers far more than it will say.
PUBLISHING 4 APRIL 2027 · EBOOK & PAPERBACK · ALL MAJOR RETAILERS
The Novel
Thirty-six years ago, someone disappeared.
It happened in a small village in the hills above Taormina, before Elena Hart was born. Until a letter from Palermo arrived in Chicago, she had no reason to think the village had anything to do with her.
Now her grandfather, a man she didn’t know, has left her a stone house there. Elena expects paperwork and a quick sale, and finds instead a place where the past is still close at hand: in photographs on old walls, in the pause before someone answers, in a story that changes a little depending on who is telling it.
Her mother left Sicily long ago and has never said why. Elena begins to wonder whether the two are connected, and why, in all these years, no one has ever told her.
Come for Sicily.
Stay for the secret.
Before the book · The Road
Follow Elena from Chicago to Sicily.
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Seen in Sicily · The trailer
One letter. One house. Thirty-six years of silence.
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Alongside the book · The Village Key
Six doors. Six people who remember.
Character files, recipes and the real places of the novel.
Safe to explore before you read.
Rosalia's Kitchen
Rosalia
Recipes from the novel, and the woman who has fed the village for fifty years.
Village Key
Nino Caffè e Vino
Nino
The square, the regulars, and coffee the Sicilian way.
Village Key
La Bottega
Salvatore
Tools, olive groves, and how an old stone house is brought back to life.
Village Key
Terra e Memoria
Chiara
A ceramics workshop where every object carries a sentence.
Village Key
Casa di Elena
Elena
The suitcase from Chicago, the house room by room, and a map of Elena’s Sicily.
Village Key
Caterina's home
Caterina
A Sicilian kitchen in Chicago, and the habits that travelled with her.
Village Key
The Village Key
One key. Every door in the village.
- A Sicilian kitchen: recipes from every place on the road
- Elena’s Sicily: the places, their stories and what only locals know
- The people of the village, as Elena meets them
- Scenes that never made the book, safe to read first
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The Author
Tina Arsenovic
She has always loved creativity and the thrill of discovering new places. The idea for Silenzio grew out of exactly that, on a journey through Sicily, among hilltop villages, old stone houses and the quiet sense that every place held a story she would never quite know.
Silenzio is her first novel.
After the last page · For readers only
Behind the Olive-Green Door
If you have reached the last page, this door is open for you.
Everything behind this door is a spoiler. Come back once you have finished the book.
The code from the last page
The code is printed after the final chapter, in every edition.
Waiting inside
The doors that stayed closed
The people who kept silent, and why.
Where the clues were
Every hint hidden in the novel, chapter by chapter.
The night of 1990
What really happened, hour by hour.
From the house
The pages, the photographs and the card, up close.
The scenes I cut
What happened off the page, and why it stayed there.
For book clubs
Questions for after the last page, and a note from the author.