Thomas Ari Plank is a German-Icelandic writer whose debut novel, The Sound of Being, will be published in Fall 2026.
Parsun, California, 1985. Thom, a senior at the secluded University of Parsun, must navigate the shifting terrain of love, friendship, and the exploration of the mind as he enters a final year in which everything he thought mattered begins to change.
A contemplative bildungsroman about the unfolding discovery of the mind’s freedom.
Thomas Ari Plank is a German-Icelandic writer. He spent his early childhood in Germany and Iran before settling in Iceland, where he now studies at the University of Iceland. The Sound of Being is his first novel.
