Humming Bird: Novel (In Anchor Letters) (French Edition)

Marco Carrera is the "hummingbird." Like the bird, he employs all his energy to remain in the same place, to hold firm despite the dramas that punctuate his existence. As the novel opens, all the certainties of this renowned ophthalmologist, a happy family man, are going to be swept away by a strange visit regarding his wife, and the events of the summer of 1981 will continue to be revived in his memory.

A younger sibling in a family of three, Marco enjoyed a happy childhood in Florence. In the summer, he and his family would settle in their house in Bolgheri, nestled amid a pine forest on the Tuscan coast. This property, which was meant to symbolize family happiness, is nonetheless the place where the drama that no member of the Carrera family will ever fully recover from will play out.

In that summer of 1981, the year of his twenty-second birthday, Marco's fears and hopes crystallize, and he will have to face the loss of a loved one and experience a love so absolute that it will never leave him. Through a remarkable novelistic architecture that proceeds from coincidences to discoveries, Veronesi delivers a vast and powerful novel that grabs the reader into a world more true to life, where life, always, triumphs.

Cadet of a trio of siblings, Marco lived a happy childhood in Florence. In the summer, he and his family would settle in their house in Bolgheri, nestled within a pine forest on the Tuscan coast. This property, which was meant to symbolize family happiness, is nonetheless the place where the drama that no member of the Carrera family will ever fully recover from will play out.

As the novel opens, all the certainties of this renowned ophthalmologist, a happy family man, are going to be swept away by a strange visit regarding his wife, and the events of the summer of 1981 will continue to be revived in his memory. In that summer of 1981, the year of his twenty-second birthday, Marco's fears and hopes crystallize, and he will have to face the loss of a loved one and experience a love so absolute that it will never leave him.

Through a remarkable novelistic architecture that proceeds from coincidences to discoveries, Veronesi delivers a vast and powerful novel that grabs the reader into a world more true to life, where life, always, triumphs. "Sandro Veronesi's The Hummingbird is a deeply moving masterpiece. Absolute beauty down to the smallest detail." - Corriere della Sera

Translated from the Italian by Dominique Vittoz.

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