About me
Christian Asevedo was born in San Fernando, Chile, in 1974. In April 1988, he emigrated with his family to Norway. Since then, Bergen has been his home.
He has worked since 2001 at the TORO factory, part of the Orkla Group, where he is also an active trade union representative and a member of the negotiation committee for his section. He is married to Jessica Ramírez, also Chilean, and in 2005 they became a family with their son Diego, born in Puerto Aysén in 2002 and adopted through a process that deeply shaped their lives.
Reading has always been an essential part of his life, thanks to the influence of his father. Silence is his first novel — a deeply personal story that blends moments from his own life with the collective memory of Chile over the past fifty years. Inspired by authors like Santiago Posteguillo and Ildefonso Falcones, Christian is passionate about history books. While still defining his literary style, his writing is rooted in emotional truth, memory, and the desire to understand the things we choose not to say.
SILENCE
A novel by Christian Asevedo
What if the greatest secret of your life wasn’t what you did—
but what you kept silent?
Daniel Sandoval is in his early forties and lives in Bergen with a family that loves him, but has never fully understood the shadows he carries. One day, a letter arrives from Chile—forcing him to return to a past buried in fear: a trial for crimes committed during the dictatorship, a name he swore never to say again, and the echo of a childhood shattered by state violence.
As the archives of the past are opened in Santiago, his wife and children in Norway begin to realize that the life they’ve shared with him has only scratched the surface. Silence is a novel told through multiple voices and generations—a deeply intimate and human story about what we inherit without choosing it, and what we hide because we never learned how to speak it.
Can a family survive a truth that arrives too late?
And what about a country?
