The Distant Sound Author:Gert Jonke, Jean M. Snook (Translator) Told that he recently attempted suicide, a man awakens in an insane asylum with no memory of his actions, or even of his own name. A composer who has already given up composing - because of his inability to notate the music of the spheres! - he becomes increasingly fixated on capturing a mysterious, eerie, distant sound, which he soon equates wi... more »th all the things he desires most: the perfect woman, the perfect city, the perfect work of art. Obsessed with his impossible quest, the man breaks out of the asylum and begins a series of comic, dreamlike, and ultimately haunting adventures as he tried to locate the source of the sound that consumes him...and instead finds the root cause of all his failures.