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.
For those of you unacquainted with the name, Sandro Veronesi is a senior Italian writer who – uniquely – has twice won the Premio Strega. This is his ninth novel. He writes across many disciplines and is much celebrated in Italy, where The Hummingbird was voted best book of the year by the Corriere della Sera, as well as being championed around the world. All of which is to say: the wonderful (and relieved) feeling I had while reading this novel was that I was in the hands of a seasoned practitioner writing at that peak moment in a career where insight and experience in the form meet insight and experience in life.
The Hummingbird tells the story of Marco Carrera…
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