{"product_id":"heaven-and-earth-paperback-2","title":"Heaven and Earth - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaolo Giordano\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAnne Milano Appel\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Solitude of Prime Numbers\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Perfect, moving, honest, brilliant, with characters who feel like old friends.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eLess \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003eHeaven and Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning achievement and confirms him as an electrifying presence in contemporary fiction.\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Andr  Aciman, author of \u003ci\u003eCall Me by Your Name \u003c\/i\u003eand Find Me\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEvery 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEverything 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut no bond is unbreakable and no summer truly endless, as Teresa soon discovers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBecause 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn unforgettable story of enduring love, the bonds between men, and the all-too-human search for meaning, \u003ci\u003eHeaven and Earth\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaolo Giordano\u003c\/b\u003e is also the author of the critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eLike Family\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Human Body\u003c\/i\u003e, and the international bestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Solitude of Prime Numbers\u003c\/i\u003e, which has been translated into more than forty languages, as well as \u003ci\u003eHow Contagion Works, \u003c\/i\u003e about the COVID-19 pandemic. \u003ci\u003eHeaven and Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is his latest novel. Giordano has a PhD in particle physics and is now a full-time writer. He lives in Italy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Milano Appel, \u003c\/b\u003ePhD, has been awarded the Italian Prose in Translation Award (2015), the John Florio Prize for Italian translation (2013), and the Northern California Book Award for Translation, Fiction (2013, 2014). She has translated works by Claudio Magris, Paolo Giordano, Giovanni Arpino, and numerous others.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.6 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 20, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47397393268914,"sku":"9781984877338","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/e070bc1b1b580a95c14b1c861ec4bf70.webp?v=1778029876","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/heaven-and-earth-paperback-2","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}