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Quiet Chaos

Sandro Veronesi · 2005 CE · Novel · Italian · Contemporary

After his wife dies suddenly, Pietro Paladini, a media executive, begins to spend each day parked outside his young daughter's school instead of returning to work. Colleagues, relatives and strangers come to him there. It won the Premio Strega in 2006 and was filmed by Nanni Moretti in 2008.

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