A powerful, epic novel of four friends as they grapple with desire,
youth, death, and faith in a sweeping story by the international
bestselling author of The Solitude of Prime Numbers "Perfect,
moving, honest, brilliant, with characters who feel like old
friends." -Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less
"Heaven and Earth is a stunning achievement and confirms him as an
electrifying presence in contemporary fiction." -Andre Aciman,
author of Call Me by Your Name and Find Me 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 families who have lived there for generations. She
spends long afternoons enveloped in a sunstruck stupor, reading her
grandmother's paperbacks. Everything changes the summer she meets
the three boys who live on the farm 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 center 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. An unforgettable story of enduring love, the
bonds between men, and the all-too-human search for meaning, Heaven
and Earth is Paolo Giordano at his best: an author capable of
unveiling the depths of the human soul, who has now given us the
old-fashioned pleasure of a big, sprawling novel in which to lose
ourselves.
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