MICHAEL PATERNITI

In the summer of 2000, the author listened as Ambrosio Molinos de las Heras of the picturesque Spanish village of Guzman spun an odd and compelling tale about a cheese made from an ancient family recipe. Reputed to be among the finest in the world - one bite could conjure long-lost memories. In this book, the author relates his experience.

As heard on Radio 4 Book of the Week. In the medieval Castilian village of Guzman (population: 80), villagers have gathered for centuries in the 'telling room' to share stories and drink the local wine. It was here, in the summer of 2000, that Michael Paterniti found himself listening to a compelling tale about a cheese made from an ancient family recipe that was reputed to be among the finest in the world. Until, Ambrosio said, things had gone horribly wrong. Hooked on the story, Paterniti relocated his young family to the tiny hilltop village to find out more. But like many Spanish villages, Guzman was rife with gossip and old feuds, secret alliances and plotted vengeance and before long Paterniti was sucked into the heart of an unfolding mystery. When he learned that the cheesemaker had apparently plotted to murder his closest friend, the village began to spill its long-held secrets, and Paterniti found himself implicated in ways he never expected...

Part travelogue, part memoir, this unique book follows an eighty-four-year-old pathologist and a young journalist across the country with Albert Einstein's brain in Tupperware bowl filled with formaldehyde in the trunk of their car. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.. NOTA: El libro no esta en español, sino en ingles.

Albert Einsteins brain floats in a Tupperware bowl in a gray duffel bag in the trunk of a Buick Skylark barreling across America. Driving the car is journalist Michael Paterniti. Sitting next to him is an eighty-four-year-old pathologist named Thomas Harvey, who performed the autopsy on Einstein in 1955 -- then simply removed the brain and took it home. And kept it for over forty years. On a cold February day, the two men and the brain leave New Jersey and light out on I-70 for sunny California, where Einsteins perplexed granddaughter, Evelyn, awaits. And riding along as the imaginary fourth passenger is Einstein himself, an id-driven genius, the original galactic slacker with his head in the stars. Part travelogue, part memoir, part history, part biography, and part meditation, Driving Mr. Albert is one of the most unique road trips in modern literature.

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS In this moving, lyrical, and ultimately uplifting collection of essays, Michael Paterniti turns a keen eye on the full range of human experience, introducing us to an unforgettable cast of everyday people. Michael Paterniti is one of the most original and empathic storytellers working today. His writing has been described as humane, devastating, and beautiful by Elizabeth Gilbert, spellbinding by Anthony Doerr, and expansive and joyful by George Saunders. In the seventeen wide-ranging essays collected for the first time in Love and Other Ways of Dying, he brings his full literary powers to bear, pondering happiness and grief, memory and the redemptive power of human connection. In the remote Ukranian countryside, Paterniti picks apples (and faces mortality) with a real-life giant; in Nanjing, China, he confronts a distraught jumper on a suicide bridge; in Dodge City, Kansas, he takes up residence at a roadside hotel and sees, firsthand, the ways in which the racial divide turns neighbor against neighbor. In each instance, Paterniti illuminates the full spectrum of human experience, introducing us to unforgettable everyday people and bygone legends, exploring the big ideas and emotions that move us. Paterniti reenacts François Mitterrands last meal in a rustic dining room in France and drives across America with Albert Einsteins brain in the trunk of his rental car, floating in a Tupperware container. He delves with heartbreaking detail into the aftermath of a plane crash off the coast of Nova Scotia, an earthquake in Haiti, and a tsunami in Japanand, in searing swirls of language, unearths the complicated, hidden truths these moments of extremity teach us about our ability to endure, and to love. Michael Paterniti has spent the past two decades grappling with some of our most powerful subjects and incomprehensible events, taking an unflinching point of view that seeks to edify as it resists easy answers. At every turn, his work attempts to make sense of both love and loss, and leaves us with a profound sense of what it means to be human. As he writes in the Introduction to this book, The more we examine the grooves and scars of this life, the more free and complete we become.Praise for Michael Paterniti and Love and Other Ways of DyingOne of the best books Ive read all year . . . These pieces are exceptional artifacts of literary journalism.Mark OConnell, Slate These pieces are extraordinary. . . . Journalism elevated beyond its ordinary capacities, well into the realm of literature.Columbia Journalism Review A fearless, spellbinding collection of inquiries by a brilliant, globally minded essayist whose writing is magic and whose worldview brims with compassion . . . The size of Michael Paternitis curiosity is matched only by the size of his heart.Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See Michael Paterniti is a genius.Elizabeth Gilbert, author of The Signature of All Things One of the best living practitioners of the art of literary journalism, able to fully elucidate and humanize the everyday and the epic.Dave Eggers, author of The CircleIn each of these essays, Michael Paterniti unveils life for us, the beauty and heartbreak of it, as we would never see it ourselves but now can never forget it. Paterniti is brillianta rare masterand one of my favorite authors on earth.Lily King, author of Euphoria

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • Entertainment Weekly • Kirkus Reviews • The Christian Science MonitorIn the picturesque village of Guzmán, Spain, in a cav

El cerebro de Albert Einstein cruza veloz, sumergido en formol dentro de un tupperware en el maletero de un Buick Skylark, Estados Unidos. El conductor, Michael Paterniti, un joven periodista; su acompañante, el anciano patologo Thomas Harvey, que cuarenta años atras ¿durante la autopsia de Einstein- saco el cerebro y, sin mas, se lo llevo a casa. Un frio dia de febrero, dos hombres y un cerebro abandonan New Jersey rumbo a California. Alli los aguarda, perpleja, Evelyn, la nieta de Einstein. Un original relato de viaje en el que Paterniti, en compañia del famoso cerebro, transmite su deslumbrante, magica y aguda percepcion del sueño americano.