Title : Calm chaos - Sandro Veronesi - book

Summary :

Femina Prize - Foreign Novel 2008

Pietro Paladini is motionless. In the eye of the storm. He no longer leaves his car, parked outside his daughter's school in Milan. This attractive forty-something, whom life had spared, has just lost his wife, Lara. He waits to suffer, but it's not so easy to feel the loss. Friends and strangers come to talk to him, to hug him, to share this suspended time, this "calm chaos" where he now takes refuge. Work colleagues on the eve of an unprecedented financial merger, an opium-smoking brother, a sister-in-law who strips off in the middle of a nervous breakdown—all at one point drop their masks. All renounce social comedy. From this situation worthy of Beckett, Sandro Veronesi constructs a moving, expansive, masterfully woven novel: a blend of the intimate at its most vibrant and the real at its most disturbing.

In the wake of a hero who is in no way heroic, eminently contemporary and furiously endearing. Jeanne de Ménibus, Madame Figaro.

• EAN: 9782253127451
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