QUIET CHAOS: A NOVEL - Rare Fine Copy of The First American Edition/First Printing: Signed by Sandro Veronesi - ONLY SIGNED COPY ONLINE

Veronesi, Sandro (Translated by Michael F. Moore)

ISBN 10: 0061572942 / ISBN 13: 9780061572944

Published by New York City, NY: Ecco Press/HarperCollins Publishers, 2011, 2011

About this Item

1st Printing. Signed. 425 pages. Published in 2011. The author's second novel to be translated into English. One of the greatest novels of our time. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a softcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. The production values are impeccable: A lovely DJ design that utilizes an image from the film adaptation. Printed on pristine-white, archival stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Sandro Veronesi's "Caos Calmo" in a felicitous English translation. Widely regarded as his masterpiece. "Pietro Paladini saves a woman from drowning at the exact moment that his wife Lara suddenly dies. After the unexpected death, Pietro becomes enveloped in a strange calm, and he spends each day outside his daughter's school, observing the quiet rhythms of life. His bosses visit him to share cryptic information about a messy corporate merger. His co-workers, buckling under the strain of the merger, turn to him for advice and go a little crazy. Things get even messier when Pietro encounters the woman he rescued, Eleonora, a wealthy seductress, whose life has also been upended by that pivotal moment" (Publishers Weekly). The basis of the great film by Antonello Grimaldi (whose screenplay was written by Veronesi), with Alessandro Gassman, Antonella Attili, and Nanni Moretti. An absolute "must-have" title for Sandro Veronesi collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Sandro Veronesi. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great book. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First Edition/First Printing (American) available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: There is NO hardcover edition. Published as a softcover original only. Copies available online have very serious flaws or are in multiple subsequent printings. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the Premio Viareggio Repaci and the Premio Campiello for "La Forza del passato" in 2000. Winner of the Premio Strega, the most important literary prize in Italy, for "Caos Calmo" in 2008. One of the most brilliant writers of our time. A fine copy. ISBN 0061572942.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: QUIET CHAOS: A NOVEL - Rare Fine Copy of The First American Edition/First Printing: Signed by Sandro Veronesi - ONLY SIGNED COPY ONLINE
• Publisher: New York City, NY: Ecco Press/HarperCollins Publishers, 2011
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0061572942
• ISBN 13: 9780061572944
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: None, As Issued
• Signed: Signed by Author

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Synopsis

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. 

On the shores of the Mediterranean, exhausted from an afternoon of surfing, Pietro Paladini is shaken out of his stupor by a distant noise. “Over there!” he cries to his brother, Carlo, sunning beside him. “Over there!”

So begins the adventure that will tear a hole in Pietro’s life. For while he and his brother struggle to save two drowning swimmers, a tragedy is unfolding down the road at his summer cottage. Instead of coming home to a hero’s welcome, Pietro is greeted by the flashing lights of an ambulance, the wide-eyed stare of his young daughter, Claudia, and the terrible news that his fiancée, Lara, is dead.

Life must go on. Or does it? Pietro, a true iconoclast, has to find his own way .When he drops Claudia off for the first day of school, he decides to wait outside for her all day, and then every day. To protect her. To protect himself. To wait for the heavy fist of grief to strike. But as the days and weeks go by, the small parking lot in front of the school becomes his refuge from the world as well as the place where family and colleagues come to relieve their own suffering—among them, the woman he rescued from the waves. And Pietro plunges deeper into the depths of his life before seeing the simple truth before his eyes.

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 Sandro Veronesi author of The Force of the Past.

About the Author

Sandro Veronesi is one of Italy’s most acclaimed writers of literary fiction, as well as a poet, essayist, journalist, and playwright. He is the author of nine novels, including Quiet Chaos, which was translated into twenty languages and won the Premio Strega, the Prix Fémina, and the Prix Méditerranée. Veronesi is only the second author in the Premio Strega's history to win the prize twice.