An international bestseller with tremendous word-of-mouth appeal, Follow Your Heart is a bittersweet, heartwarming novel spanning generations and teaching the universal truths about life, love, and what lies within each of us. Originally published in Italy, Follow Your Heart won the coveted Premio Donna Citta di Roma and sold over 800,000 copies in that country alone before hitting bestseller lists throughout the rest of Europe. Now North American readers can enjoy the novel that has won over the world. It begins in late autumn 1992 as an elderly Italian woman, prompted by the knowledge of her encroaching death, sits down to write a letter to her granddaughter now grown and living in far-off America. Through these moving reflections, we see one life laid bare--joys, sorrows, regrets, and all. And through the eyes of a woman nearing the end of her days, we come to understand what life experience has taught her: that no matter what the stakes, we must look within ourselves and gather the courage to follow our hearts.

Follow Your Heart

Literature & Fiction

Tamaro, Susanna

Genre Fiction

Random House Publishing Group

Susanna Tamaro’s writing has deeply affected people throughout the world. Though her voice is unique and her stories firmly rooted in her native Italy, the power of her words and her understanding of human lives are universal. In 1994 her novel Follow Your Heart, was published to wide critical acclaim: “Apart from the perfect characterization and compelling narrative, the writing is a joy to savour, leaving you unable to do anything except to read on.” In Rispondimi, Susanna Tamaro has written three beautiful, thematically related novellas set in contemporary Italy. They portray lives shaped by the tyranny of family, the unpredictable consequences of love, and the fragile hope of redemption: a young woman, trapped by circumstance, teeters on the brink of an abyss; a middle-aged widow, consumed by her hatred of her dead husband, glimpses a possibility of salvation; a guilty father seeks renewal in his daughter’s forgiveness. Incisive, insightful, forcefully written, and thoroughly convincing, Rispondimi confirms Susanna Tamaro’s place as an international writer for our age. Readers will not easily forget the haunting power of this new work.

Rispondimi

Contemporary

Nan A. Talese

The internationally bestselling author of Follow Your Heartuncovers hope in the midst of tragedy in these three utterly transfixing novellas set in Susanna Tamaro’s native Italy. In “Answer Me,” an orphaned girl with a troubled past desperately searches for a sign that she is loved while cultivating an inner strength that allows her to persevere. In “Hell Does Not Exist,” an abused wife attempts to protect her son, who becomes the source of her greatest joy and her most profound devastation. And in “The Burning Forest,” a widower recounts the unraveling of his marriage and seeks the forgiveness of his estranged daughter. Hauntingly powerful and exquisitely written, Answer Me is a spiritually galvanizing book by a writer of international stature.

Answer Me

Humor & Satire

Anchor

Fearing her encroaching death, an elderly woman decides to write a long letter to her granddaughter, in the shape of a diary. Part love-letter and part confession, it is a bequest of advice from an old woman who acknowledges that she has always bowed to convention and repressed her feelings.

Bantam Dell Pub Group

An international bestseller with tremendous word-of-mouth appeal, Follow Your Heart is a bittersweet, heartwarming novel spanning generations and teaching the universal truths about life, love, and what lies within each of us.  Originally published in Italy, Follow Your Heart won the coveted Premio Donna Citta di Roma and sold over 800,000 copies in that country alone before hitting bestseller lists throughout the rest of Europe.  Now North American readers can enjoy the novel that has won over the world.It begins in late autumn 1992 as an elderly Italian woman, prompted by the knowledge of her encroaching death, sits down to write a letter to her granddaughter now grown and living in far-off America.  Through these moving reflections, we see one life laid bare--joys, sorrows, regrets, and all.  And through the eyes of a woman nearing the end of her days, we come to understand what life experience has taught her:  that no matter what the stakes, we must look within ourselves and gather the courage to follow our hearts.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Random House Audio |

With the wind whipping round the family house, an elderly Italian woman, driven by fear of her encroaching death, writes to her granddaughter in America. A love letter, a confession and above all a bequest for life, Follow Your Heart is a wise and beautiful novel, relevant to us all.

DOUBLEDAY

FOLLOW YOUR HEART

Minerva

The bestselling author of "Follow Your Heart" now presents two essays: "Even in Darkness" and "Not a Color, but a Light". "Turning Home" is part religious reflection and part exploration of fear loneliness, and the great longing of the human heart to be happily home.

Turning Home: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Crossroad

Divided into three parts—fire, earth, and wind—this novel follows Walter from his rural adolescence through his adult years as he leaves his known world for the chaos and complexity of Rome. Wrestling with difficult family relationships and outgrowing childhood friendships, Walter finds himself in the end searching for a long-lost friend and the certainty he once knew.

Anima Mundi

Autumn Hill Books

In a series of letters, Olga, an elderly Italian woman, writes to her teenaged granddaughter in America, trying to encourage her independence and self-fulfillment as she relates the painful lesson of her own life and that of her daughter

Cullen, John

Wheeler Pub Inc

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Follow Your Heart

Rispondimi

Answer Me

Follow Your Heart

Follow Your Heart

Follow Your Heart

FOLLOW YOUR HEART

Turning Home: A Memoir

Anima Mundi

Follow Your Heart