The Human Body
Editorial GRANTA BOOKS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher GRANTA BOOKS
- ISBN13 9780143127734
- ISBN10 014312773X
- Type BOOK
- Pages 366
- Published 2015
- Language English
- Bookbinding Hard cover
Subjects
English LiteratureThe Human Body
Editorial GRANTA BOOKS
Mainland Spain
Book details
From the bestselling author of "The Solitude of Prime Numbers," a searing novel of war and the journey from youth into manhood A heartrending, at times darkly comic but ultimately redemptive novel, Paolo Giordano s "The Human Body" is an exploration of brotherhood and family, of modern war and the wars we wage within ourselves. It is a novel that reminds us of what it means to be human. A platoon of young men and a single woman leave Italy for one of the most dangerous places on earth. At their forward operating base in Afghanistan an exposed sandpit scorched by inescapable sunlight and mortar fire this band of inexperienced soldiers navigates the irreversible journey from youth to adulthood. But when a much-debated mission goes devastatingly awry, their lives are changed in an instant. And on their return home, they will confront the most difficult challenge of all: to create a life worth living."