Heaven and Earth

'HEAVEN AND EARTH is the perfect novel. Paolo Giordano is one of the handful of great writers working anywhere today' Edmund White

Every summer Teresa follows her father to his childhood home in Puglia, down in the heel of Italy, a land of relentless, shimmering heat and centuries-old olive groves. There Teresa spends long afternoons enveloped in a sun-struck stupor, reading her grandmother's cheap crime paperbacks.

Everything changes the summer she meets the three boys who live on the masseria next door: Nicola, Tommaso and Bern - the man Teresa will love for the rest of her life. Raised like brothers on a farm that feels to Teresa almost suspended in time, the three boys share a complex, intimate and seemingly unassailable bond.

But no bond is unbreakable and no summer truly endless, as Teresa soon discovers.

Because there is resentment underneath the surface of that strange brotherhood, a twisted kind of love that protects a dark secret. And when Bern - the enigmatic, restless gravitational centre of the group - commits a brutal act of revenge, not even a final pilgrimage to the edge of the world will be enough to bring back those perfect, golden hours in the shadow of the olive trees.

From the creator and writer of the new HBO series WE ARE WHO WE ARE, co-written and directed by Luca Guadagnino (CALL ME BY YOUR NAME) and starring Chloe Sevigny.

“PRAISE FOR PAOLO GIORDANO Mesmerizing... An exquisite rendering of what one might call feelings at the subatomic level. - New York Times on THE SOLITUDE OF PRIME NUMBERSTender, cruel, beautiful... A modern classic. - Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winner author of LESS on THE HUMAN BODYElegiac, tender and mournful.- Wall Street Journal on LIKE FAMILY”

Confirms Paolo Giordano as an electrifying presence in contemporary fiction. - Andre Aciman, bestselling author of CALL ME BY YOUR NAME and FIND ME

Heaven and Earth is beautifully but not ostentatiously written, peopled with unforgettable characters, a powerful love story, animated by ideas, visually stunning. Paolo Giordano is one of the handful of great writers working anywhere today. - Edmund White

The perfect novel. And I'm not saying this lightly. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. - Andrea Wulf, Costa-winning author of THE INVENTION OF NATURE

This is at once a lush picture of growing up in the Italian countryside and a deeply affecting story of friendships under the strain of time and tragedy. Giordano's best book yet. - Dave Eggers, bestselling author of THE CIRCLE

Magnificent... Novels like this are a rare find: you won't be able to forget it. - Elena Varvello, bestselling author of CAN YOU HEAR ME?

PAOLO GIORDANO is a physicist and a bestselling writer. His first novel, THE SOLITUDE OF PRIME NUMBERS, was translated into more than 40 languages worldwide and won the Premio Strega (the Italian Booker).

Paolo is the author of the forthcoming novel HEAVEN AND EARTH and of the pamphlet HOW CONTAGION WORKS, a rallying cry inspired by the recent CoV-19 epidemic. He is also the creator of the new HBO series WE ARE WHO WE ARE, co-written and directed by Luca Guadagnino.

He holds a master's degree and a PhD in theoretical physics.

'HEAVEN AND EARTH is the perfect novel. Paolo Giordano is one of the handful of great writers working anywhere today' Edmund White Every summer Teresa follows her father to his childhood home in Puglia, down in the heel of Italy, a land of relentless, shimmering heat and centuries-old olive groves. There Teresa spends long afternoons enveloped in a sun-struck stupor, reading her grandmother's cheap crime paperbacks.Everything changes the summer she meets the three boys who live on the masseria next door: Nicola, Tommaso and Bern - the man Teresa will love for the rest of her life. Raised like brothers on a farm that feels to Teresa almost suspended in time, the three boys share a complex, intimate and seemingly unassailable bond. But no bond is unbreakable and no summer truly endless, as Teresa soon discovers. Because there is resentment underneath the surface of that strange brotherhood, a twisted kind of love that protects a dark secret. And when Bern - the enigmatic, restless gravitational centre of the group - commits a brutal act of revenge, not even a final pilgrimage to the edge of the world will be enough to bring back those perfect, golden hours in the shadow of the olive trees. From the creator and writer of the new HBO series WE ARE WHO WE ARE , co-written and directed by Luca Guadagnino ( CALL ME BY YOUR NAME ) and starring Chloe Sevigny.

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