{"product_id":"heaven-and-earth-9781984877338","title":"Heaven and Earth","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA powerful, epic novel of four friends as they grapple with desire, youth, death, and faith in a sweeping story by the international bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Solitude of Prime Numbers\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Perfect, moving, honest, brilliant, with characters who feel like old friends.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eLess \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003eHeaven and Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning achievement and confirms him as an electrifying presence in contemporary fiction.\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Andr  Aciman, author of \u003ci\u003eCall Me by Your Name \u003c\/i\u003eand Find Me\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEvery summer Teresa follows her father to his childhood home in Puglia, down in the heel of Italy, a land of relentless, shimmering heat, centuries-old olive groves and families who have lived there for generations. She spends long afternoons enveloped in a sunstruck stupor, reading her grandmother's paperbacks. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEverything changes the summer she meets the three boys who live on the farm next door: Nicola, Tommaso and Bern--the man Teresa will love for the rest of her life. Raised like brothers on a farm that feels to Teresa almost suspended in time, the three boys share a complex, intimate, and seemingly unassailable bond. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut no bond is unbreakable and no summer truly endless, as Teresa soon discovers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBecause there is resentment underneath the surface of that strange brotherhood, a twisted kind of love that protects a dark secret. And when Bern--the enigmatic, restless gravitational center of the group--commits a brutal act of revenge, not even a final pilgrimage to the edge of the world will be enough to bring back those perfect, golden hours in the shadow of the olive trees. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn unforgettable story of enduring love, the bonds between men, and the all-too-human search for meaning, \u003ci\u003eHeaven and Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is Paolo Giordano at his best: an author capable of unveiling the depths of the human soul, who has now given us the old-fashioned pleasure of a big, sprawling novel in which to lose ourselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/20\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781984877338\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Paolo Giordano","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44870636667061,"sku":"9781984877338","price":18.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_a169fe6d-857b-418c-82a7-0ba9cf8ee0db.jpg?v=1733240818","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/heaven-and-earth-9781984877338","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}