QUIET CHAOS (CAOS CALMO)

Book ID/图书代码： 11360010B38389

English Summary/英文概要： The 2005 winner of Italy’s top literary award, the Strega Prize, and the 2008 winner of France’s Prix Femina Estranger, and adapted into an internationally acclaimed film, Sandro Veronesi’s QUIET CHAOS is 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.

After an afternoon of surfing, television executive Pietro Paladini and his brother Carlo spot two women struggling far off in the waves. Pietro and Carlo race to save them, and after fighting the currents and exhaustion, bring them safely to shore. Now late to get home, Pietro hurries up from the beach only to find his young daughter, Claudia, wide-eyed at the side of the road. His wife has unexpectedly died while he was saving the life of another.

After numbly feeling their way through the rituals of death and the end of summer, the school year begins. On that first day, Pietro decides to wait for Claudia and work from his car in the parking lot outside her school; he is also waiting for the full force of grief to press down on their shoulders, to suffocate them. What if today is the day that happens? What if Claudia needs him?

On the second day, Pietro again waits for his daugher . . . and the third, and the fourth. He finds some semblance of peace in waiting, and strangely others find something similar in him: his colleagues, friends and family begin to visit him at the parking lot to share their problems. It’s there that the woman he saved finds him, stirring in him a distracting, overbearing lust that stands in the way of his grief. Through their angry, unforgiving union, Pietro’s days outside the school reach their culmination, and his loss is finally transformed into acceptance.

At turns funny and dark, unexpectedly compelling and powerfully real, Quiet Chaos takes readers into the odd, beautiful moments of the everyday that offer opportunity for contemplation, and ultimately, renewal.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 故事講述主人翁Pietro Paladini為傳播界的成功人士，某天與弟弟Carlo在海灘救起兩位陌生女子，但卻在同時痛失愛妻，至慟不已，擔心十歲的女兒Claudia走不出傷痛，以及再度失去所愛的他，於是開始放著工作不管，每天接送女兒上下課，甚至在整天就在校外公園坐著等她。就這樣，在等待女兒放學的時光裡，Pietro遇到了各式各樣的人，親近自己從未有機會認識的人，也開始重新思考人生的方向及意義…究竟生命要如何解脫？痛苦要如何釋懷？(Vincent)

Awards/获奖情况：義大利暢銷至今至少已售出30萬冊，版權已售十八國，荷蘭、法國及德國版推出後也登上暢銷榜！
電影宣傳短片：http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFhvx7eRBQY

Winner of 2005 Strega Prize
Winner of 2008 France’s Prix Femina Estranger

Rights sold:
Prometheus /Holland
Knaus/ Germany
Rao/ Romania
Rocco/ Brazil
Kustannusosakeyhtiö Summa/ Finland
Anagrama/ World Spanish
Grasset & Fasquelle/ France
Keter Books/Keren Publ./ Israel
Asa/ Portugal
Ecco Press/ USA
Tyto Alba/ Lithuania
Limbus Press Publishing/ Russia
C Light Publishing/ Japan
Papyros Publishing Group/ Greece
Paradox/ Bulgaria
Editorial Galaxia/ Galitian
Janis Roze/ Latvia
The Open Books/ Korea

About the Author/作者介绍： Sandro Veronesi，1959年生於義大利Prato。畢業於佛羅倫斯大學建築系，文筆相當優異的他，最後朝文字工作發展，擔任過評論家、記者，最後以小說家為業。著有《往事的力量》 (La forza del passato)皇冠等十餘本小說。《平靜的混亂》(Caos calmo)是他目前最受矚目的作品，不僅暢銷全國及歐洲，更翻拍成電影。

Format:TRADE PAPERBACK

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