Paolo Giordano is the author of the internationally bestselling novel The Solitude of Prime Numbers (2010), which has been translated into more than forty languages, as well as The Human Body (2014), Like Family (2015), Heaven and Earth (2020), and the nonfiction title How Contagion Works (2020). His novel Tasmania is a bestseller in Italy and has been sold in more than thirty territories. Giordano has a PhD in particle physics and is a regular contributor to Corriere della Sera. He lives in Italy. Antony Shugaar is the author of a number of books and has translated hundreds of others, including Everything Is Broken Up and Dances by Edoardo Nesi and Guido Maria Brera, Notes on a Shipwreck by Davide Enia, and The Piranhas and Savage Kiss by Roberto Saviano. His translation of Gianni Rodari's Telephone Tales received the American Library Association's 2021 Batchelder Award. He is the editor-in-chief of Redcar Press, a new publishing house focusing on translated fiction and graphic novels.
“A compulsively readable novel, Tasmania evokes the probing, introspective spirit of W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn and Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights. Giordano has written an urgent and moving book that looks with unflinching honesty at the crises of our troubled moment, as well as the fragile spaces of hope and connection in the midst of the storm.” —Scott Guild, author of Plastic Praise for The Solitude of Prime Numbers: “Mesmerizing...An exquisite rendering of what one might call feelings at the subatomic level.” —New York Times “Giordano’s passionate evocation of being young and in despair will resonate strongly with readers.” —USA Today “Elegant and fiercely intelligent...[a] singular love story.” —Elle