Paolo Giordano

Paolo Giordano

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Paolo Giordano is also the author of the critically acclaimed Like Family and The Human Body, and the international bestseller The Solitude of Prime Numbers, which has been translated into more than forty languages, as well as How Contagion Works, about the COVID-19 pandemic. Heaven and Earth is his latest novel. Giordano has a PhD in particle physics and is now a full-time writer. He lives in Italy. 

Books by Paolo Giordano
Tasmania
Paolo Giordano

A Best Book of 2024 by The New Yorker

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.

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The Human Body
Paolo Giordano, Anne Milano Appel
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The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Paolo Giordano

A stunning debut novel about the intertwined destinies of two friends brought together by childhood tragedy.

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