| Cover Artist: | Dave McKean |
| Author: | Jonathan Carroll |
| Country: | United States |
| Isbn: | 0385473516 |
| Language: | English |
| Pages: | 240 |
| Publisher: | MacDonald & Co (UK) Doubleday (US) |
| Published: | April 1992 (UK)[1] April 1993 (US) |
After Silence is the eighth novel by the American writer Jonathan Carroll, published in 1992.[2] It tells the story of a successful cartoonist, the protagonist Max Fischer, who fell in love with a woman. Later he discovers many secrets, including a terrifying crime, about the woman and is confused about what to do.
Reviews of the novel are mixed. LA Times Reviewer Susan Heeger, thought the plot had a strong design, but was not expertly told: "Carroll's book doesn't rise above the level of an intriguing cautionary tale over-directed by someone anxious to get his point across." Publishers Weekly had a much more positive review, writing that the novel is "An electrifying, unforgettable novel that unfolds with the logic of a Greek tragedy, Carroll's parable on moral cowardice [has an] uncompromising honesty about how secrets gnaw and kill."[3] The London Review of Books describes the novel as representing the American "everyday" with "delicate descriptions".[4]