Quiet Chaos: A Novel

Description

The winner of the Strega Prize, Italy's top literary award, and the basis of an internationally acclaimed motion picture, Quiet Chaos is now available in America. Author Sandro Veronesi, whose work has been glowingly compared to the novels of Ian McEwan and Martin Amis, dazzles with this powerfully compelling, often darkly funny story of a television producer whose world is misshapen by ironic tragedy. An unforgettable contemporary fable about stepping out of life after it cruelly turns everything upside-down, and finding a resolution to the unsolvable problem of loss in the beauty and strangeness of the everyday, Quiet Chaos is another literary wonder from the author of The Force of the Past.

Sandro Versonesi was born in Prato, Italy in 1959. Though novelist, essayist, and journalist, Veronesi earned a degree in architecture at the University in Florence before pursuing a career in writing. His seventh novel, THE FORCE OF THE PAST, won the Viareggio-Repaci Prize and the Campiello Prize and was a Zerilli-Marimo finalist. Sandro Veronesi now lives in Rome. In 2005, he won the Stega Prize for CAOS CALMO (QUIET CHAOS).

"Mr. Veronesi sustains the opening scene's excitement as he stirs a psychological ferment...The overpowering sense of fragility that touches Pietro and Claudia is superbly conveyed by translator Michael F. Moore. Let's hope more novels from Mr. Veronesi's back catalog join 'Quiet Chaos' in translation." -- Wall Street Journal "Dazzling... Like a literary Fellini, Veronesi brings to life the larger-than-life human comedy as only an Italian would dare, uproariously funny in the face of stark tragedy. It's a reading experience not to be missed." -- Shelf Awareness "[An] absorbing second novel." -- Publishers Weekly