The Hummingbird

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The Hummingbird

By: Sandro Veronesi, Elena Pala - translator

Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Silvia Presente, Victor Vertunni

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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; raising his granddaughter; 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 surprising and deeply moving reinvention of the family saga, this is a thrilling novel about the need to look to the future with hope and live with intensity to the very end.

Coming of Age

Family Life

Fiction

Genre Fiction

Literary Fiction

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Critic reviews

"With The Hummingbird, Sandro Veronesi has re-written the family saga. Ardent, gripping and inventive to the core, it has already been hailed a classic." (Jhumpa Lahiri)

"Extraordinary." (Domenico Starnone, National Book Award Finalist author of Ties and Trick)

"Masterly: a cabinet of curiosities and delights, packed with small wonders." (Ian Mcewan)

"A spellbinding experience: clever, funny and deeply moving." (Roddy Doyle)

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I found this to be a truly unique book in that it is a story about nothing. Take any of our lives, the trials and tribulations we live through and describe it through beautiful prose, considered observation and snippets of correspondence and suddenly we are all the hero of our own epic. To see how anyone can be the protagonist in their own experience, to be painted a hero just for keeping on keeping on is a quiet epiphany and ludicrously moving.
The true genius here is to have created the extraordinarily mundane and everyday life purely through fiction and to then make it beautiful.

Not for people who love thrillers or drama