The Hummingbird: A Novel by Sandro Veronesi

The Hummingbird is a remarkable accomplishment, a true gift to the world. -Michael Cunningham""Long considered one of Italy's leading writers, Sandro Veronesi has re-written the family saga. Ardent, gripping, and inventive to the core, it has already been hailed a classic.""-Jhumpa Lahiri""The Hummingbird is a masterly novel, a brilliantly conceived mosaic of love and tragedy.""-Ian McEwanThe #1 international sensation from a master of European literature-winner of Italy's Premio Strega-a saga of a Florentine family from the 1960s to the present that brilliantly captures the power of history and the multi-faceted experience of life itself as it explores how we contend with uncontrollable forces that both buffet and buoy us. Marco Carrera is ""the hummingbird,"" a man with an almost supernatural ability to remain still amid the chaos of an ever-changing world. Though his life is rife with emotional challenges-suffering the death of his sister and the absence of his brother; caring for his elderly parents; raising his granddaughter when her mother, Marco's own child, is no longer capable; loving an enigmatic woman-Marco carries on with a noble stoicism that belies an intensity for living.