The Hummingbird

THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE PREMIO STREGA’Long considered one of Italy’s leading writers, Sandro Veronesi has dazzled both readers and critics with novels that are not only page-turners but profoundly literary. With his latest novel, The Hummingbird, he has re-written the family saga. Ardent, gripping, and inventive to the core, it has already been hailed a classic’Jhumpa Lahiri’I have known for quite some time that Sandro Veronesi was one of the most skillful and profound Italian storytellers of the past thirty years. But The Hummingbird is the decisive proof of his sensitivity, of his extraordinary strength as a writer’Domenico Starnone, author of Ties (National Book Award finalist)Since childhood, Marco Carrera, who had a growth disorder as a child, has been called ‘the hummingbird’. But in a sense Marco is really a hummingbird: he lives a dramatic life, full of joys, love, hope, laughter and heartbreak, but as also remains in perfect balance. His frantic movements enable him to survive the existential acrobatics of life – just like a hummingbird, which makes twelve to eighty wing beats per second, but remains suspended in the air, seemingly motionless.In The Hummingbird we breathlessly follow the life of Marco Carrera, a hero for our times. A beautiful novel about pain and the agonizing power of life.Translated by Elena Pala.]]>