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Today's Featured Title and Contest |
December 6, 2016 |
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This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that is perfect for holiday giving and that you may want to include on your “to me/from me” list. Read more about it, and enter our Holiday Cheer Contest by Wednesday, December 7th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of LIKE FAMILY by Paolo Giordano, which is now available in paperback. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!
You can take a look at all the books we're giving away in this year's Holiday Cheer contests on our Pinterest page here.
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Today's Featured Book and Contest: LIKE FAMILY by Paolo Giordano
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From the author of the international bestseller THE SOLITUDE OF PRIME NUMBERS comes an exquisite portrait of marriage, adulthood and the meaning of family.
Paolo Giordano’s prize-winning debut novel, THE SOLITUDE OF PRIME NUMBERS, catapulted the young Italian author into the literary spotlight. His new novel features his trademark character-driven narrative and intimate domestic setting that first made him an international sensation.
When Signora A first enters the narrator’s home, his wife, Nora, is experiencing a difficult pregnancy. First as their maid and nanny, then their confidante, this older woman begins to help her employers negotiate married life, quickly becoming the glue in their small household. She is the steady, maternal influence for both husband and wife, and their son, Emanuele, whom she protects from his parents’ expectations and disappointments. But the family’s delicate fabric comes undone when Signora A is diagnosed with cancer.
Moving seamlessly between the past and present, Giordano highlights with remarkable precision the joy of youth and the fleeting nature of time. An elegiac, heartrending, and deeply personal portrait of marriage and the people we choose to call family, this is a jewel of a novel --- short, intense and unforgettable.
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-Click here to read an excerpt.
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