by Paolo Giordano · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782021105872
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«Le corps humain» is the contemporary novel by Paolo Giordano, published by Ed. du Seuil in paperback (414 pages, in French).
Charlie platoon, sent on a peace mission to Afghanistan, brings together soldiers from very different backgrounds at an advanced base in the middle of the desert. Between danger, heat and boredom, each faces their fears and hang-ups; a doctor fleeing his past and an operation outside the base shatter all their certainties.
Translated from the Italian by Nathalie Bauer; originally published as Il corpo umano in 2012. Nominated for the Europese Literatuurprijs 2014.
For readers of contemporary fiction and war fiction interested in the psychology of soldiers.
Paolo Giordano is an Italian writer who won the Premio Strega literary award with his first novel The Solitude of Prime Numbers.
