A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE GUARDIAN: ''DEEPLY PLEASURABLE''
A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE SPECTATOR: ''WHAT A JOY''

''Magnificent'' Guardian
''A towering achivement'' Financial Times
''Inventive, bold, unexpected'' Sunday Times

''Everything that makes the novel worthwhile and engaging is here: warmth, wit, intelligence, love, death, high seriousness, low comedy, philosophy, subtle personal relationships and the complex interior life of human beings''
Guardian

''Not since William Boyd''s Any Human Heart has a novel captured the feast and famine nature of a single life with such invention and tenderness''
Financial Times

''There is a pleasing sense of having grappled with the real stuff of life: loss, grief, love, desire, pain, uncertainty, confusion, joy, despair - all while having fun''
The Sunday Times

''Instantly immersive, playfully inventive, effortlessly wise''
Observer

''Masterly: a cabinet of curiosities and delights, packed with small wonders''
Ian McEwan

''A real masterpiece. A funny, touching, profound book that made me cry like a little girl on the last page''
Leïla Slimani

''A remarkable accomplishment, a true gift to the world''
Michael Cunningham

''Ardent, gripping, and inventive to the core''
Jhumpa Lahiri

Marco Carrera is ''the hummingbird,'' a man with the almost supernatural ability to stay still as the world around him continues to change.

As he navigates the challenges of life - confronting the death of his sister and the absence of his brother; taking care of his parents as they approach the end of their lives; raising his granddaughter when her mother, Marco''s own child, can no longer be there for her; coming to terms with his love for the enigmatic Luisa - Marco Carrera comes to represent the quiet heroism that pervades so much of our everyday existence.

A thrilling novel about the need to look to the future with hope and live with intensity to the very end.

THE NO. 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Over 300,000 copies sold
Soon to be a major motion picture
Winner of the Premio Strega
Winner of the Prix du Livre Etranger
Book of the Year for the Corriere della Sera