The Hummingbird - Premio Strega 2020

Masterfully crafted: a cabinet of curiosities and delights full of small wonders. Ian McEwan. Unconventional, disarming, and profoundly human. "The Hummingbird" is a new kind of family saga. Jhumpa Lahiri.

A shock, perhaps the most intense in a life rich with shocks: Marco Carrera, an ophthalmologist, learns from his wife's psychoanalyst that she is leaving him for a German pilot with whom she is pregnant. This marks the beginning of Sandro Veronesi's award-winning novel "The Hummingbird." In a psychologically sophisticated manner, it narrates a rollercoaster of emotions that shape the fate of this sensitive man, featuring incomparable characters he encounters on the tennis court or at the gaming table, familial misfortune, and a profound, lifelong love. Marco's existence resembles that of a hummingbird: in search of tranquility, he is constantly in motion.

An extraordinary polyphonic novel, akin to Jonathan Franzen in an Italian style.