A deeply moving novel about how the personal becomes political and about the urgent need to learn to listen to one another.

“Hearing and listening are not the same thing. […] Hearing is a physiological matter. […] Listening, on the other hand, requires a conscious effort: you have to want to listen; you have to dare to listen.”

After the death of Marina, a biologist dedicated to the study of birds, her editor and friend Julia will take up and carry on her voice: that of a friendship that endures and that of an unfinished manuscript about birdsong. To work on it, she moves into a country house that Marina left her as an inheritance, where a truth she hid her entire life will emerge. With her usual insight into the cracks of an era and her ability to delve into the folds of family secrets, unspoken mandates, and ideological tensions, Claudia Piñeiro has crafted The invisible song—a deeply moving novel about how the personal becomes political and how what was left unsaid finds, sooner or later, a way to surface. A novel about the urgency of listening to those around us, to those who hold different opinions, to young people, and also to the dead. And about the—sometimes immense—difficulty of doing so.