There is a pleasing sense of having grappled with the real stuff of life: loss, grief, love, desire, pain, uncertainty, confusion, joy, despair – all while having fun’ You'll be torn between lingering on one amazing image and flipping ahead to see what's next. . . . A riveting read that does more than adequate justice to its subjects."—David Callahan, BirdLife Magazine ascoltavano la struggente versione di Sacrifice cantata da Sinéad O’Connor – and it’s no sacrifice / just a simple word / it’s two hearts living / in two separate worlds –, nell’illusione, così sacrificandosi, di non far nulla di male, non tradire nessuno, non distruggere nulla. Marco Carrera is “the hummingbird,” a man with an almost supernatural ability to remain still amid the chaos of an ever-changing world. Though his life is rife with emotional challenges—suffering the death of his sister and the absence of his brother; caring for his elderly parents; raising his granddaughter when her mother, Marco's own child, is no longer capable; loving an enigmatic woman—Marco carries on with a noble stoicism that belies an intensity for living. As the years pass and the arc of his life bends, Marco finds himself filled with joy for the future as the baton passes from him to the next generation. The images in this book leave you stunned, and to think that flowers have adapted to these birds for pollination, and without them some would go extinct! . . . . This is certainly a celebration of nature's jewels."—John Miles, Birdwatching Magazine

Kate Mildenhall is such an exciting writer to read … This generous, playful novel speaks to themes of climate change, survival and holding space for each other, as well as the enduring power of female friendship.' The GuardianZamanda sürekli ileri geri giderek çözüyoruz hikayeyi. Mektuplar, mesajlaşmalar, e-postalar da bize eşlik ediyor. Çözümlendikçe düğümleniyor, öykü açıldıkça derinleşiyor. Kahramanımız Marco Carrera'nın 70 senelik yaşam öyküsünü, dönüm noktalarını, kayıplarını okuyoruz. Aileye, romantik ilişkilere, bağlara, bağımlılıklara, sevginin doğasına ve biçimlerine, olmak istediklerimize, olamadıklarımıza, mutluluk fikrine, bizatihi mutluluğa ve pek tabii mutsuzluğa dair çok süssüz ve fakat bir o kadar incelikli şeyler anlatıyor Veronesi. Evet bu kitapta altı çizilesi büyük aforizmalar yok ama insanın içine işleyen bir yalınlık var. Ve biliyorsunuz ki ben böyle edebiyata bayılıyorum. cosa gli abbia fatto la psicoanalisi sarebbe interessante saperlo, magari in un libro più pensato, più costruito, più meditato, più lavorato. E fin qui si può apprezzare lo sforzo di mettere in piedi una storia inverosimile (presumo, anzi spero, che l’autore abbia attinto a più esempi della cerchia di amici e conoscenti) ma avvincente, con un tentativo di alleggerire grazie al pastiche della corrispondenza, ma quando si fa ricorso a trucchetti da scuola-di-scrittura quali gli elenchi e le compilazioni, io sento puzza di scorciatoia. Non si ha voglia/non si è capaci di contestualizzare il personaggio, di dargli un profilo che non sia quello ritagliato con l’accetta della prima persona, e allora si fa fare il lavoro sporco all’autore. Lo spiegone finale fa tenerezza per quanto è imbarazzante: un trucchetto da principiante usato da un autore consumato, che fa la stessa impressione di trucco&parrucco da educanda su una vecchia baldracca, o del neo e dei vezzi del cicisbeo su un dongiovanni prossimo alla morte.

An awesome . . . book with truly spectacular photos of a wide variety of the world’s hummingbirds. . . . All 101 genera are pictured in this book, thus showcasing beautiful photos of a representative cross-section of the world’s hummers. Superb images of hummingbirds aside, the text is also fascinatingly informative, covering a wide range of topics about these special, unique birds."—Chris Lotz, Birding Ecotours A questo punto, tanto valeva far iniziare la storia qualche decennio prima, e finirla nei giorni nostri, visto che effettivamente del futuro non si ha il minimo contesto narrativo, come invece lo si ha, e molto vivamente, del passato. Spellbinding, genre-defying, and powerful in its vision of the future … The Hummingbird Effect is a devastating novel that exposes the ways the future is seeded in the past.’ Australian Book Review Three woman who join together to rent a large space along the beach in Los Angeles for their stores—a gift shop, a bakery, and a bookstore—become fast friends as they each experience the highs, and lows, of love.Belki son sayfalarını Cunda'da bir sonbahar akşamı gün batarken ıssız bir meydana bakarken okuduğum için bunca içime işledin. (O akşamüstünün hissini hiç unutmayacağım, biliyorum.) Belki anlattığın; bir ailenin yıllara yayılan kopuş öyküsünün bir benzerini yaşadığım, annemle babamın ayrıldığı yerde seni okuduğum için beni gafil avladın ve derimin altına nüfuz etmeyi başardın, bilmiyorum. Proust'un Madlen'i gibi, istem dışı belleğim devreye girdi, bu kitap ve bu ada bir araya gelince beni çok acayip yerlere götürdü.

In The Hummingbird, there's a brief reference to an incident in which a motorbike rider travelling along a motorway near Pisa is killed because the hook on a helicopter flying overhead carrying a tank of water, breaks at just the wrong moment. The rider hasn't a chance, squashed between the tank and the asphalt. This book, which mainly revolves around someone being in the wrong place at the wrong time, suffered the same fate as the motorbike rider in terms of my reading experience. It got squashed between two powerful books: overshadowed by the one I read before it, trivialised by the one I read after it. Ir, odie, kokį malonumą patyriau skaitydama Veronesi šedevrą. Beje, vienam svarbiausių italų rašytojų šis kūrinys pelnė jau antrąją Stregą. Sometimes a new novel is accompanied by so much advance praise it seems like a sure winner. So it can feel disconcerting to discover that after actually reading the book it hasn't worked for me. Jhumpa Lahiri states that Sandro Veronesi (winner of multiple literary prizes in his native Italy) is “long considered one of Italy's leading writers” and that “his latest novel 'The Hummingbird'... has already been hailed as a classic.” High praise for this book also comes from Ian McEwan, Howard Jacobson, Michael Cunningham, Richard Ford, Edward Carey and Edward Docx. It's described as a “reinvention of the family saga” and generally I really fall for multigenerational stories. So all the elements were in place for me to fall in love with this book, but I didn't. This naturally makes me wonder if I'm missing something or if my expectations were set too high. But generally I've found that no amount of overarching high praise will spoil my enjoyment of a book if it's actually good and “The Hummingbird” is a novel that I keep finding faults with the more I think about it. Gli ultimi due capitoli sono tra i più brutti mai letti (non battono il finale di Numero 11 di Coe, solo perché è imbattibile), la nipote-manga si trasforma in Greta e lui diventa Siddartha. Ma …. un editor che si preoccupi di tirar giù le vele nere dalla nave** ed evitare che il lettore si sfracelli sugli scogli?!Po dlhom čase som našla knihu mužského autora, ktorá mi naozaj sadla. Kolibrík vynakladá veľa energie, aby zostal na mieste. Hlavná postava Marco je tým kolibríkom, zostáva na mieste a je tak oporným bodom pre postavy a udalosti, ktoré sa dejú. A dejú sa mu naozaj veľké, smutné, krásne a podivné veci. Sometimes the moment of reading can enrich and enhance not only the book itself but the books that came before and after it. Connections fire, themes mirror each other, understanding deepens.