'A devastating marvel of a novel' Sunday Telegraph 'A highly
enjoyable novel... Giordano is especially good on the textures,
smells, heat and colours of the Italian south. These stay long in
the mind, as does the way he writes about the obsessiveness of
love, the way it dominates and distorts and the self-delusions and
fantasies it gives rise to' TLS 'If you're pining for an Italian
break, then this might be the remedy: Heaven And Earth is rooted so
deep in idyllic Puglia that you can almost feel the red soil under
your sandals' Daily Mail 'Raw and evocative: a breathtaking and
poignant creation that will leave you itching under the skin'
Herald 'A stunning achievement' Andre Aciman, author of Call Me By
Your Name 'Perfect, moving, honest, brilliant, with characters who
feel like old friends' Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning
author of Less '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,
centuries-old olive groves and taciturn, proud people. 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. PRAISE FOR PAOLO GIORDANO
'Mesmerizing... Giordano works with piercing subtlety' New York
Times 'Elegant and fiercely intelligent' Elle 'Elegiac, tender and
mournful' Wall Street Journal
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