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The Hummingbird
Il colibrì
Sandro Veronesi (born 1959)
Translated by Elena Pala
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The Hummingbird
HarperVia · United States · 2022 · 304 pages
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The Hummingbird
Weidenfeld & Nicolson · United Kingdom · 2021 · 400 pages
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The hummingbird is one of the smallest birds in the world, able to stay almost still in mid-air thanks to a frantic beating of its wings. Marco Carrera is the hummingbird. His is a life of losses and pain, of suspensions and fatal coincidences, of terrible losses and absolute loves, and his past seems to drag him ever further down like a whirlpool. Yet he never falls all the way: his is a frantic effort to stay steady and even to rise again. Around him move other unforgettable characters, in a time that stretches from the early 1970s into a dark near future, when a little girl named Miraijin appears.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 366 pages in the original
- Genres
- Family, Love (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy, 1970s–2030s
- First published
- 2019 by La nave di Teseo
- Author's age
- 60 when first published
- ISBN
9788834600474 (original)
9781474617468 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, United Kingdom)
9780063158559 (HarperVia, United States)
- More
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