On the shores of the Mediterranean, exhausted from an afternoon of surfing, Pietro Paladini is shaken out of his stupor by a distant noise. Over there! he cries to his brother, Carlo, sunning beside him. Over there! So begins the adventure that will tear a hole in Pietros life. For while he and his brother struggle to save two drowning swimmers, a tragedy is unfolding down the road at his summer cottage. Instead of coming home to a heros welcome, Pietro is greeted by the flashing lights of an ambulance, the wide-eyed stare of his young daughter, Claudia, and the terrible news that his fiancÉe, Lara, is dead. Life must go on. Or does it? Pietro, a true iconoclast, has to find his own way. When he drops Claudia off for the first day of school, he decides to wait outside for her all day, and then every day. To protect her. To protect himself. To wait for the heavy fist of grief to strike. But as the days and weeks go by, the small parking lot in front of the school becomes his refuge from the world as well as the place where family and colleagues come to relieve their own sufferingamong them, the woman he rescued from the waves. And Pietro plunges deeper into the depths of his life before seeing the simple truth before his eyes. Sandro Veronesi makes art of every detail, creating a mosaic of humor, hope, profound insight, and emotional resonance. Quiet Chaos is an unprecedented portrayal of a life set adrift by death.

Quiet Chaos: A Novel

Humor & Entertainment

Veronesi, Sandro

Humor

Ecco

The Hummingbird: A Novel

"The Hummingbird&nbsp;is a remarkable accomplishment, a true gift to the world." --Michael Cunningham "Long considered one of Italy's leading writers, Sandro Veronesi has re-written the family saga. Ardent, gripping, and inventive to the core, it has already been hailed a classic."--Jhumpa Lahiri "The Hummingbird is a masterly novel, a brilliantly conceived mosaic of love and tragedy."--Ian McEwan The #1 international sensation from a master of European literature--winner of Italy's Premio Strega--a saga of a Florentine family from the 1960s to the present that brilliantly captures the power of history and the multi-faceted experience of life itself as it explores how we contend with uncontrollable forces that both buffet and buoy us.&nbsp; Marco Carrera is "the hummingbird," a man with an almost supernatural ability to remain still amid the chaos of an ever-changing world. Though his life is rife with emotional challenges--suffering the death of his sister and the absence of his brother; caring for his elderly parents; raising his granddaughter when her mother, Marco's own child, is no longer capable; loving an enigmatic woman--Marco carries on with a noble stoicism that belies an intensity for living. As the years pass and the arc of his life bends, Marco finds himself filled with joy for the future as the baton passes from him to the next generation.&nbsp; A beautiful and compelling journey through time told in myriad narrative styles, The Hummingbird is a story of suffering, happiness, loss, love, and hope--of a man who embodies the quiet heroism that defines daily life for countless ordinary folk. A thrilling novel about the need to look to the future with hope and live with intensity to the very end, Sandro Veronesi's masterpiece--eminently readable, rich in insight, and filled with interesting twists and revelations--is a portrait of human existence, the vicissitudes and vagaries that propel and ultimately define us Translated from the Italian by Elena Pala "A great novel, vibrating with life and death, happiness and pain, nostalgia and hope for the future." --Vanity Fair "Everything that makes the novel worthwhile and engaging is here ... magnificent - moving, replete, beautiful." --The Guardian

Literature & Fiction

United States

HarperVia

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 
“The Hummingbird is a remarkable accomplishment, a true gift to the world.” —Michael Cunningham 
“Long considered one of Italy's leading writers, Sandro Veronesi has re-written the family saga. Ardent, gripping, and inventive to the core, it has already been hailed a classic.”—Jhumpa Lahiri 
"The Hummingbird is a masterly novel, a brilliantly conceived mosaic of love and tragedy."—Ian McEwan 
The #1 international sensation from a master of European literature—winner of Italy’s Premio Strega—a saga of a Florentine family from the 1960s to the present that brilliantly captures the power of history and the multi-faceted experience of life itself as it explores how we contend with uncontrollable forces that both buffet and buoy us. 
Marco Carrera is “the hummingbird,” a man with an almost supernatural ability to remain still amid the chaos of an ever-changing world. Though his life is rife with emotional challenges—suffering the death of his sister and the absence of his brother; caring for his elderly parents; raising his granddaughter when her mother, Marco's own child, is no longer capable; loving an enigmatic woman—Marco carries on with a noble stoicism that belies an intensity for living. As the years pass and the arc of his life bends, Marco finds himself filled with joy for the future as the baton passes from him to the next generation. 
A beautiful and compelling journey through time told in myriad narrative styles, The Hummingbird is a story of suffering, happiness, loss, love, and hope—of a man who embodies the quiet heroism that defines daily life for countless ordinary folk. A thrilling novel about the need to look to the future with hope and live with intensity to the very end, Sandro Veronesi’s masterpiece—eminently readable, rich in insight, and filled with interesting twists and revelations—is a portrait of human existence, the vicissitudes and vagaries that propel and ultimately define us 
Translated from the Italian by Elena Pala 
"A great novel, vibrating with life and death, happiness and pain, nostalgia and hope for the future." —Vanity Fair 
"Everything that makes the novel worthwhile and engaging is here ... magnificent – moving, replete, beautiful." —The Guardian

In this award-winning Italian novel, an unusual stranger convinces Gianni Orzan that his vision of his deceased father as a distant, cruel Fascist is in fact untrue and that instead his father had been a double agent for the KGB.

The Force of the Past: A Novel

Alastair McEwen

Literary

A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE GUARDIAN: 'DEEPLY PLEASURABLE' 
A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE SPECTATOR: 'WHAT A JOY'\n'Magnificent' Guardian 
'A towering achivement' Financial Times 
'Inventive, bold, unexpected' Sunday Times\n'Everything that makes the novel worthwhile and engaging is here: warmth, wit, intelligence, love, death, high seriousness, low comedy, philosophy, subtle personal relationships and the complex interior life of human beings' 
Guardian\n'Not since William Boyd's Any Human Heart has a novel captured the feast and famine nature of a single life with such invention and tenderness' 
Financial Times\n'There is a pleasing sense of having grappled with the real stuff of life: loss, grief, love, desire, pain, uncertainty, confusion, joy, despair - all while having fun' 
The Sunday Times\n'Instantly immersive, playfully inventive, effortlessly wise' 
Observer\n'Masterly: a cabinet of curiosities and delights, packed with small wonders' 
Ian McEwan\n'A real masterpiece. A funny, touching, profound book that made me cry like a little girl on the last page' 
Leïla Slimani\n'A remarkable accomplishment, a true gift to the world' 
Michael Cunningham\n'Ardent, gripping, and inventive to the core' 
Jhumpa Lahiri\nMarco Carrera is 'the hummingbird,' a man with the almost supernatural ability to stay still as the world around him continues to change.\nAs he navigates the challenges of life - confronting the death of his sister and the absence of his brother; taking care of his parents as they approach the end of their lives; raising his granddaughter when her mother, Marco's own child, can no longer be there for her; coming to terms with his love for the enigmatic Luisa - Marco Carrera comes to represent the quiet heroism that pervades so much of our everyday existence.\nA thrilling novel about the need to look to the future with hope and live with intensity to the very end.\nTHE NO. 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 
Over 300,000 copies sold 
Soon to be a major motion picture 
Winner of the Premio Strega 
Winner of the Prix du Livre Etranger 
Book of the Year for the Corriere della Sera

The Hummingbird: ‘Magnificent’ (Guardian)

Selon saint Marc

Religion & Spirituality

GRASSET

Le Colibri

Genre Fiction

Chaos Calme (Le Livre de Poche) (French Edition)

Livre De Poche

Product Description Una bellísima novela sobre el amor, la superación y el optimismo. Una lección de literatura y de vida merecedora del Premio Strega.El colibrí es un pájaro menudo que tiene la capacidad de mantenerse en suspensión en el aire. A Marco Carrera, oftalmólogo que ejerce en Roma, de niño su madre lo llamaba colibrí por su escasa estatura. El problema de crecimiento se solucionó con inyecciones de hormonas, pero Marco ha continuado siendo un colibrí por su habilidad para seguir en el aire a pesar de las adversidades.Un día lo visita en su consulta el psicoanalista de su mujer y, saltándose el secreto profesional, le advierte de que esta ha descubierto que sigue carteándose con un amor de juventud. No será el único conflicto al que tendrá que enfrentarse Marco: deberá cuidar de sus padres enfermos –él ingeniero, ella arquitecta–, que durante su infancia escenificaron una familia feliz que no lo era tanto; deberá tratar de reconciliarse con su hermano, que ahora vive en Estados Unidos, porque sobre ellos planea la sombra del final trágico de la hermana muchos años atrás, y también deberá hacerse cargo de su nieta cuando su hija, madre soltera, deje de poder hacerlo...Toda una serie de infortunios y golpes del destino que Marco siempre sabrá cómo afrontar sin perder el ánimo... Esta es una novela sobre la vida y sus altibajos, sobre la resiliencia, la empatía y el amor. Siguiendo la capacidad ya demostrada en Caos calmo y Profecía para abordar el dolor y su superación, Sandro Veronesi nos ofrece una lección de literatura y de vitalismo. El resultado es una emocionante novela sobre la necesidad de mirar hacia el futuro con esperanza y vivir con intensidad hasta el final, sobre la importancia de mantenerse en alto como el colibrí. Review «Contiene todos los elementos que han convertido a Veronesi en un gran escritor, con mayores dosis de madurez y ambición» (Nicola H. Cosentino, Esquire).«Potente y delicada, original y veraz, dulce y desgarradora. Es una suerte que Veronesi haya regresado a las librerías con El colibrí» (Mattia Insolia, L’Indiependente).«Una de las novelas más hermosas de los últimos diez años» (Vincenzo Mollica, Tg1).«Te deja con ganas de amar, de aprender, de leer» (Alessandro Gnocchi, Il Giornale).«Un canto a la vida y una guía íntima y privada para la supervivencia» (Giulia Ciarapica, Il Messaggero).«Una novela poderosa y emocionante» (Concita De Gregorio, La Repubblica).«Emocionante y terapéutica» (Giuseppe Fantasia, Huffington Post). Book Description Una bellísima novela sobre el amor, la superación y el optimismo. Una lección de literatura y de vida merecedora del Premio Strega. About the Author Sandro Veronesi (Florencia, 1959) es uno de los mejores novelistas de su generación, además de un destacado ensayista y periodista. En Anagrama ha publicado las novelas Caos calmo (su obra mayor, por la que consiguió el Premio Strega y el Premio Novela Europea Casino de Santiago) y Profecía, así como el ensayo de denuncia Salvar vidas en el Mediterráneo. Un panfleto íntimo contra el racismo.

El colibrí (Panorama De Narrativas) (Spanish Edition)

Editorial Anagrama

Il colibri (Oceani, 77)

La nave di Teseo +

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