The Silent Symphony

Unique political fiction books like ‘The Silent Symphony’ are hard to find nowadays. Written by Marcel du Plessis, The Silent Symphony is an intriguing and well-written story that highlights the hidden functioning of a metropolis and that some choices and acts may have significant consequences on the majority. The tale is about Cassius Wortham, a man who abandons everything to flourish as a novelist inside an unnamed, fortified metropolis near the center of the globe. However, a lot is happening in the dark, and nothing is what appears! Marcel did a remarkable job in writing The Silent Symphony because it is not just a story; instead inspires us to understand our society and everything we should do to improve it. Highly Recommended!

Steeped in improbable (and impossible) greatness, The Silent Symphony is a powerfully penned allegory, a shimmering image of a dystopia just close enough for readers to understand. A multi-layered plot of dark secrets, victories over death through eternal words, and enigmatic players like the ill-fated Wild Child and the traumatized Refugee, this novel is stacked with symbolism, but any heavy-handedness is muted by brilliant language and a poetic, experimental style. In The City, a sprawling metropolis, a bastion of modernity, there are still ancient powers at work, both within human nature and outside of our conception. The balance of the known and the mysterious will clash. Cas and his friends are at the swirling center of an inevitable collapse, but even when the prose veers into the tangential and experimental, the plot isn't lost, merely diverted in a new direction. The novel reads a bit like a piece of classical music, inconceivable to fully understand upon a first read, but there is a special quality that will draw you back, and deeper. The narration bounces seamlessly from abstract and grandiose to visceral and interpersonal, reminding readers that even the largest cities, nations and species are ultimately composed of wildly unique and unpredictable individuals. In that there is hope, but as this novel shows, there is also most certainly something to learn. Nearly masterful.

"A philosophical, surreal, and irresistible dive into a Nameless City, The Silent Symphony by Marcel M du Plessis is a mind-expanding narrative too weird to be ignored and too wise to be untrue. A series of cryptic characters choose "fatal acts of desperation" and every shrugging misstep is shadowed by the pervading sense that no one and nothing is what it seems, unraveling itself with Kafkaesque levels of psychological symbolism. Cas, Warrick, and Kat form the novel's magnetic core of artists, dreamers, writers, and wild ones, taking readers on a cerebral journey through a bizarre and eerily silent world, for a wholly original and exhilarating work of visionary dystopian fiction." ★★★★½