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The Human Body

Name: The Human Body
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Author: Paolo Giordano

Auteur: Paolo Giordano

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Uitgever: Penguin Putnam Inc

Auteur: Paolo Giordano

9780670015641
26 november 2014
318 pagina's

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Paolo Giordano

Paolo Giordano (Turijn, 1982) studeerde in 2007 cum laude af in natuurkunde en werkte aan een project dat mede gefinancierd werd door het Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare. Paolo Giordano heeft voor zijn debuutroman De eenzaamheid van de priemgetallen (2009) - verschenen in meer dan veertig landen - vele prijzen ontvangen, waaronder de Premio Strega en de Premio Campiello Opera Prima. In 2013 verscheen zijn tweede roman, Het menselijk lichaam en in 2014 zijn nieuwe boek Het zwart en het zilver. Op bol.com vind je alle boeken van Paolo Giordano, waaronder het nieuwste boek van Paolo Giordano.

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Full of sensitivity and intelligence . . . A brilliant addition to the literature of our modern wars. --Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds From the bestselling author of The Solitude of Prime Numbers, a searing novel of the journey from youth into manhood In Paolo Giordano s highly awaited new novel, a platoon of young men and one woman soldier leaves Italy for one of the most dangerous places on earth. Forward Operating Base (FOB) in the Gulistan district of Afghanistan is nothing but an exposed sandpit scorched by inescapable sunlight and deadly mortar fire. Each member in the platoon manages the toxic mix of boredom and fear that is life at the FOB in his own way. Brash Cederna shamelessly picks on the virgin Ietri. Giulia Zampieri seemingly navigates this male-dominated world with ease until two male comrades start vying for her attention. And for medical officer Alessandro Egitto, the FOB serves as an escape from a real life even more dangerous than one fought with guns. At night, lying on their beds, they feel the beat of their own hearts, the ceaseless activity of the human body. But when a much-debated mission goes devastatingly awry, the soldiers find their lives changed in an instant. A heartrending, redemptive story about brotherhood and family, modern war and the wars we wage with ourselves, Paolo Giordano s visceral novel reminds us what it is to be human.

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Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 26 november 2014
Aantal pagina's: 318

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Hoofdauteur: Paolo Giordano
Hoofduitgeverij: Penguin Putnam Inc

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Product lengte: 243 mm
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Superb novel about serving in Afghanistan
- pdoornb
- 22 september 2014
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Paolo Giordano (PG)’s 2009 debut “The Solitude of Prime Numbers” sold over a million copies in Italy alone and has been translated in over 30 languages. In a recent interview PG said the constant media attention, book signing tours in Italy, then abroad, forced him to shelve his PhD dissertation in nuclear physics. When the storm died down, he wrote with his head, not his heart for an entire year, resulting in only a few short stories he considered fit for human consumption. So, when offered the chance to go to Afghanistan as a journalist embedded in an Italian unit, he seized it with both hands. In the interview PG said it was his cure and salvation.
His second novel has many layers and reads like a thriller. It is about the boredom of some 200 Italian troops serving in Afghanistan in a remote, hilltop FOB (Forward Operating Base) near Helmand province: poor food, bench-pressing, posturing and pestering, gaming, phoning home and making occasional inspections of the village below, heavily armed but with plenty of sweets for the dirty, fly-ridden children. There is nothing to enjoy or sense to what they are doing.
When Lt. Egitto (30), a real doctor and due to go on leave after six months, phones his sister Marianna (33), their exchange of words and feelings force him to forego his leave. Another six months of duty lie ahead, which he is quite prepared to suffer with his secret supply of anti-depressants he brought along. Why? For readers to find out.
This reader is stunned by how brilliantly PG has composed and written this book. His characters are superbly drawn, before, during and after Lt. Egitto’s fateful second tour of duty. It also makes controlling Afghanistan from hilltops and other military bases look silly. Veterans from the many countries who took part and who survived their tour of duty intact body and mind, will probably enjoy this book about a unit suffering four fatal casualties and many mental scars. Highly recommended.

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