Chaos Calme, Paperback Book, By: Sandro Veronesi

Pietro Paladini is motionless. In the eye of the storm. He no longer gets out of his car, parked at the bottom of his daughter's school in Milan. The seductive forty-something that life had spared has just lost his wife, Lara. He waits to suffer, but it is not so easy to feel the loss. Friends and anonymous people come to talk to him, hug him, share this suspended time, this calm chaos where he now takes refuge. Coworkers on the eve of an unprecedented financial meltdown, a brother smoker of opium, a step-sister who strikes bare in the midst of a nervous breakdown, all at one moment drop their masks. All give up the social comedy. On this situation worthy of Beckett, Sandro Veronesi constructs a moving, ample, masterfully woven novel: the mixture of the intimate in what it has most vibrant and the real in what it has. more disturbing.