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Chaos Calme (2005)

by Sandro Veronesi(Favorite Author)

3.59 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

2253127450 (ISBN13: 9782253127451)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Livre de Poche

review 1: A novel that moves slowly yet powerfully through a man's quiet journey through the grieving process after the sudden loss of his partner. He becomes part of the microcosm of life in the park outside his daughter's school where he sets up daily camp and quietly observes the comings and goings of various characters. Translated superbly from the original Italian, the translator has managed to retain the specific sardonic and witty sense of Italian humour. I was inspired to read this book after watching Nanni Moretti's brilliant film interpretation. Warning - a very graphic sex scene but well written in context to the events.
review 2: A splendid and breathtaking novel. I highly recommend it. ~~~ ~~~ ~~~Pirate Jack Lamplough, at Overlook Press, recommended this in... more a tweet. He was over the top in his praise. There was an ebook version so I went for it. The pirate was right. The first 10th of the book was breathtaking, a whirl of language, insight and high emotion. Couldn't stop...My second book on the Kindle App for Macs. Instead of page numbers you're told how much you've read in percentages. I'm at 9%.Veronesi's first pages so stirring and affecting, so modern, so presto-pronto, detailed and thoughtful, again, just a whirl, and when I finally paused, looking away, thinking about the opening in another way, Keats came into my mind, an odd connection:"When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain,Before high piled books, in charactry, Hold like rich garners the full-ripen'd grain;When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, High cloudy symbols of a high romance,And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;And when I feel, fair creature of an hour, That I shall never look upon thee more,Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love;--then on the shoreOf the wide world I stand alone, and thinkTill love and fame to nothingness do sink."I will report back. The pirate's recommendation has thrown me off course. What's a reader to do? less

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