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ISBN10: 198487733X
ISBN13: 9781984877338
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Jul 20 2021
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781984877338
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Jul 20 2021
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
A powerful, epic novel of four friends as they grapple with desire, youth, death, and faith in a sweeping story by the international bestselling author of The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Perfect, moving, honest, brilliant, with characters who feel like old friends.
--Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less Heaven and Earth is a stunning achievement and confirms him as an electrifying presence in contemporary fiction.
--André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name and Find Me Every summer Teresa follows her father to his childhood home in Puglia, down in the heel of Italy, a land of relentless, shimmering heat, centuries-old olive groves and families who have lived there for generations. She spends long afternoons enveloped in a sunstruck stupor, reading her grandmother's paperbacks. Everything changes the summer she meets the three boys who live on the farm next door: Nicola, Tommaso and Bern--the man Teresa will love for the rest of her life. Raised like brothers on a farm that feels to Teresa almost suspended in time, the three boys share a complex, intimate, and seemingly unassailable bond. But no bond is unbreakable and no summer truly endless, as Teresa soon discovers. Because there is resentment underneath the surface of that strange brotherhood, a twisted kind of love that protects a dark secret. And when Bern--the enigmatic, restless gravitational center of the group--commits a brutal act of revenge, not even a final pilgrimage to the edge of the world will be enough to bring back those perfect, golden hours in the shadow of the olive trees. An unforgettable story of enduring love, the bonds between men, and the all-too-human search for meaning, Heaven and Earth is Paolo Giordano at his best: an author capable of unveiling the depths of the human soul, who has now given us the old-fashioned pleasure of a big, sprawling novel in which to lose ourselves.
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