The winner of the Strega Prize, Italy\'s top literary award, and the basis of an internationally acclaimed motion picture, Quiet Chaos is now available in America.
An unforgettable contemporary fable about stepping out of life after it cruelly turns everything upside-down, and finding a resolution to the unsolvable problem of loss in the beauty and strangeness of the everyday, Quiet Chaos is another literary wonder from Sandro Veronesi author of The Force of the Past ..
And Pietro plunges deeper into the depths of his life before seeing the simple truth before his eyes.
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.
To wait for the heavy fist of grief to strike.
To protect himself.
To protect her.
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.
Life must go on.
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.
For while he and his brother struggle to save two drowning swimmers, a tragedy is unfolding down the road at his summer cottage.
Over there! So begins the adventure that will tear a hole in Pietro\'s life.
Over there! he cries to his brother, Carlo, sunning beside him.
On the shores of the Mediterranean, exhausted from an afternoon of surfing, Pietro Paladini is shaken out of his stupor by a distant noise.
Author Sandro Veronesi, whose work has been glowingly compared to the novels of Ian McEwan and Martin Amis, dazzles with this powerfully compelling, often darkly funny story of a television producer whose world is misshapen by ironic tragedy.
The winner of the Strega Prize, Italy\'s top literary award, and the basis of an internationally acclaimed motion picture, Quiet Chaos is now available in America
