Tasmania

Resumen del libro

After losing the future he imagined for himself, a writer sets out in search of connection and purpose at a tipping point with climate change and global conflict, in this breathtaking novel from the Strega Prize winning author of The Solitude of Prime Numbers. In late 2015, Paolo feels his life coming apart: While his wife, Lorenza, has decided to give up on pregnancy after years of trying, he clings to the dream of becoming a father, not just a father figure to Lorenza's son. As their marriage strains, Paolo immerses himself in work, traveling to Paris to report on the UN Climate Change Conference in the wake of terrorist attacks that shook the world. His journalism dovetails with a book he hopes to write on the atomic bomb and its survivors, a growing obsession that will take him to cities across Europe and ultimately Japan.

Biografía del autor

Paolo Giordano (Turín, 1982) es doctor en Física, periodista, guionista y escritor. Colabora regularmente con el diario Corriere della Sera. Su aclamada primera novela, La soledad de los números primos, mereció el Premio Strega 2008. Es también autor de las novelas El cuerpo humano, Como de la familia y Conquistar el cielo, así como del ensayo En tiempos de contagio. Con Tasmania, su novela más reciente, y elegida mejor libro del año 2022 en Italia, Giordano ha escrito una novela sobre el presente y el futuro: el futuro que deseamos, el que no tendremos, y el que estamos construyendo; y nos recuerda que cada uno debe encontrar su Tasmania, ese lugar donde sentirse seguro.