本书从一名婴儿的视角叙述故事，讲述了他在80年代波哥大的家庭故事，揭示了连接爱、离别和记忆的无形线索。这部小说将脆弱转化为一封写给生命的情书。

小说以婴儿圣地亚哥的视角，讲述了他从子宫到第一次也是最后一次看世界，400天的人生历程，重构了80年代波哥大一个家庭的家庭纽带。一位坚守自由的母亲，一位只给自己父亲换尿布的父亲，以及一位即将步入青春期的弟弟，构成了圣地亚哥默默观察的宇宙，他坚信，只要他保持安静，就不会成为阻碍。

作者以细腻而动人的散文，探讨了爱情、离别以及生活中的种种沉默。这位荣获波哥大国家小说奖的作家，以这部内省而又闪耀的故事，进一步强化了自己的声音。《安静》以令人心安的清晰笔触，讲述了一个短暂存在的故事。他用圣地亚哥的口吻，蕴含着他所有祖先的记忆。他带着一种无法干预的温柔，以及一种只拥有过去的人的清晰。在痛苦的可能世界与几乎不允许他存在的现实之间，他的叙述化作一封告别信，一首贯穿生死的挽歌，在生者和死者的身体之间，在他们姿态中找到了最简单的爱：留下。

我们不禁思考，生命究竟从何而来。答案似乎是，死亡并非故事的中断，而是使故事更加完整。这部作品直面脆弱——石膏包裹的身体，沉默的母亲，尖叫的兄弟，渴望的父亲——并将其转化为诗歌。

关于作者：

Eduardo Otálora was born in 1981 in Bogota, Colombia, and is an only child. At the age of twenty he wrote his first novel, which luckily was never published, because it was (and still is) very bad. It was not until 2013 that he published for the first time. It was the novel entitled Madolia, with which he won the Juan March Cencillo prize for short fiction in Spain in 2012. In 2015 he was the happiest man in the world because Salvador, his son, was born, and then he stopped writing for a while to learn how to be a father. For a couple of years he found some time to write and that's why in 2017 he published his second novel, titled Donde habitan las palabras (Where Words Dwell). Then, with the most advanced course as a father, in 2019 he won the National Novel Prize of the City of Bogotá, with the book La hora gris (The Grey Hour), which was published the same year that Mi primer Quijote  (My first Don Quixote) was published.