Paolo Giordano, Author . Viking/Pamela Dorman $25.95 (271p) ISBN 978-0-670-02148-2
Italian author and mathematician Giordano follows two scarred people whose lives intersect but can't seem to join in his cerebral yet touching debut. Alice and Mattia, both survivors of childhood traumas, are the odd ones out amid the...
READ FULL REVIEW
Paolo Giordano, trans. from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel. Viking/Pam Dorman, $27.95 (316p) ISBN 978-0-670-01564-1
Giordano follows The Solitude of Prime Numbers with a stunning exploration of war. The novel revolves around a platoon of Italian soldiers stationed in Forward Operating Base Ice in the dangerous Gulistan district of Afghanistan. Giordano makes the...
READ FULL REVIEW
Paolo Giordano, trans. from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel. Viking/Dorman, $22 (160p) ISBN 978-0-525-42876-3
Combining the edginess of modern life with the touching theme of losing someone who has become just like family, this short novel recounts how an ordinary woman, Mrs. A.—nicknamed Babette after she insists on preparing a perfect dinner for the...
READ FULL REVIEW
Paolo Giordano, trans. from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel. Viking/Dorman, $28 (410p) ISBN 978-1-98-487731-4
Giordano’s extraordinary novel of fateful friendships and obsessive love (after The Solitude of Prime Numbers) revolves around an Italian woman’s memories of her summers in Puglia in the late 1990s. Teresa Gasparro is 14 and on one of her annual...
READ FULL REVIEW
Paolo Giordano, trans. from the Italian by Anthony Shugaar. Other Press, $18.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-63542-501-7
Giordano (Heaven and Earth) delivers a resonant story of a writer worn down by the climate crisis and rising authoritarianism. Italian academic and journalist Paolo struggles in his increasingly loveless marriage to Lorenza, with whom he’s failed to
READ FULL REVIEW
