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Heaven and Earth: A Novel Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

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A powerful, epic novel of four friends as they grapple with desire, youth, death, and faith in a sweeping story by the international best-selling author of The Solitude of Prime Numbers.

“Perfect, moving, honest, brilliant, with characters who feel like old friends.” (Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less)

"Heaven and Earth is a stunning achievement and confirms him as an electrifying presence in contemporary fiction.” (André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name and Find Me)

Every 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. There Teresa spends long afternoons enveloped in a sun-struck stupor, reading her grandmother's paperbacks.

Everything 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.

But no bond is unbreakable and no summer truly endless, as Teresa soon discovers.

Because 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.

An unforgettable story of enduring love, the bonds between men, and the all-too-human search for meaning, Heaven and Earth is Paolo Giordano at his best: an author capable of unveiling the depths of the human soul and who has now given us the old-fashioned pleasure of a big, sprawling novel in which to lose ourselves.

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  1. Listening Length
    14 hours and 27 minutes
  2. Author
    Paolo Giordano, see all
  3. Narrator
    Jane McDowell
  4. Audible release date
    July 21, 2020
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    Penguin Audio
  7. ASIN
    B085STMDBT
  8. Version
    Unabridged
  9. Program Type
    Audiobook
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Listening Length 14 hours and 27 minutes
Author Paolo Giordano, Anne Milano Appel - translator
Narrator Jane McDowell
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Audible.com Release Date July 21, 2020
Publisher Penguin Audio
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B085STMDBT
Best Sellers Rank #305,275 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals)
#1,755 in Psychological Fiction (Audible Books & Originals)
#2,614 in Coming of Age Fiction (Audible Books & Originals)
#5,887 in Psychological Thrillers (Audible Books & Originals)

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Orbis Tertius
5.0 out of 5 stars Love in the present Anthropocene
Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2020
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Young people, longing for each other and a better world with the often difficult dynamics of both, in such fine story-telling. Memorable and moving, it may spark or recall your yearning for that world, too.
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Dancing Bear
3.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't quite get traction
Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2021
I'm surprised how few reviews for this since he's been praised for some of his other writing. Looks like the only thing his publisher (Penguin) did for him was get him a good translator. An excellent translator.

But, the story doesn't quite hit critical mass. It flounders. And wanders. So I never fully engaged. I grabbed it at my local library because it takes place in Puglia, Italy which is the ancestral home of my Italian ancestors (think of it as the heel of the boot, over on the SE corner of the country bordering the Adriatic.)

Giordano is a talented writer. He just needed a better editor on this book to shorten it a bit, maybe get by with one or two less characters, and punch up the story arcs a bit.
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Thomas
5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning Read
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2020
Sit back, relax and pull up this wonderful read. There are many authors but few good story tellers. Paolo G. is among the elite in the later category.
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Kim
4.0 out of 5 stars A good read
Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2021
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The story gets a bit off track in the middle but I stuck with it and it ended up being a good read.
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Claudio F Castellan
4.0 out of 5 stars Muito bom livro
Reviewed in Brazil on November 8, 2023
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Entrega rapida.Atendeu todas as condiçoes.Livro muito bom em otimo estado
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Óscar Alejandro Agüero Valle
5.0 out of 5 stars Recomendado!
Reviewed in Mexico on October 10, 2023
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Excelente e-book
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sophie
5.0 out of 5 stars great story, great writting
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 24, 2022
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good book
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Lukas
3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting bot not gripping
Reviewed in Canada on August 18, 2020
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Interesting novel but I have read more gripping novels in my life.
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