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A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE GUARDIAN : ''DEEPLY PLEASURABLE'' A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE SPECTATOR : ''WHAT A JOY'' ''Magnificent'' Guardian ''A towering achivement'' Financial Times ''Inventive, bold, unexpected'' Sunday Times ''Everything that makes the novel worthwhile and engaging is here: warmth, wit, intelligence, love, death, high seriousness, low comedy, philosophy, subtle personal relationships and the complex interior life of human beings'' Guardian ''Not since William Boyd''s Any Human Heart has a novel captured the feast and famine nature of a single life with such invention and tenderness'' Financial Times ''There is a pleasing sense of having grappled with the real stuff of life: loss, grief, love, desire, pain, uncertainty, confusion, joy, despair - all while having fun'' The Sunday Times ''Instantly immersive, playfully inventive, effortlessly wise'' Observer ''Masterly: a cabinet of curiosities and delights, packed with small wonders'' Ian McEwan ''A real masterpiece. A funny, touching, profound book that made me cry like a little girl on the last page'' Leila Slimani ''A remarkable accomplishment, a true gift to the world'' Michael Cunningham ''Ardent, gripping, and inventive to the core'' Jhumpa Lahiri Marco Carrera is ''the hummingbird,'' a man with the almost supernatural ability to stay still as the world around him continues to change. As he navigates the challenges of life - confronting the death of his sister and the absence of his brother; taking care of his parents as they approach the end of their lives; raising his granddaughter when her mother, Marco''s own child, can no longer be there for her; coming to terms with his love for the enigmatic Luisa - Marco Carrera comes to represent the quiet heroism that pervades so much of our everyday existence. A thrilling novel about the need to look to the future with hope and live with intensity to the very end. THE NO. 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Over 300,000 copies sold Soon to be a major motion picture Winner of the Premio Strega Winner of the Prix du Livre Etranger Book of the Year for the Corriere della Sera ...
