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Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll? Italian youngsters have something else on their minds - see Paolo Giordano's new novel.

Bestselling author Paolo Giordano (35) does not shy away from current themes in his new novel Devouring Heaven. Poverty, environmental problems, capitalism, (un)fertility - those in their twenties and thirties have a lot to wrap their heads around. 'I find the fixed pattern of life we grow up with strangling.'
Devouring the sky
Young people who have to find their way in the world and learn to cope with pain, loss and responsibility - Italian writer Paolo Giordano dedicated daa...

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Bestselling author Paolo Giordano (35) does not shy away from current themes in his new novel Devouring Heaven. Poverty, environmental problems, capitalism, (un)fertility - those in their twenties and thirties have a lot to wrap their heads around. 'I find the fixed pattern of life we grow up with strangling.'
Devouring the sky
Young people who have to find their way in the world and learn to cope with pain, loss and responsibility - Italian writer Paolo Giordano dedicated daa...

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