Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World Audiobook (Free)

From the author from the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All of the Light We Cannot See, a ‘dazzling’ (Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran) memoir about art and adventures in Rome.

Anthony Doerr offers received many awards-from the brand new York Public Collection, the Country wide Endowment for the Arts, and the American Collection Association. Then emerged the Rome Prize, probably one of the most renowned awards from your American Academy of Arts and Characters, and with it a stipend about Four Months in Rome: On Twins, Sleeplessness, and the largest Funeral in the History of the World and a composing studio room in Rome for any year. Doerr learned of the prize the day he and his wife came back from the hospital with newborn twins.

Exquisitely observed, Four Seasons in Rome describes Doerr’s varied adventures in one of one of the most enchanting cities in the world. He reads Pliny, Dante, and Keats — the chroniclers of Rome who came before him-and visits the piazzas, temples, and historic cisterns they describe. He attends the vigil of the dying Pope John Paul II and takes his twins towards the Pantheon in December to wait for snow to fall through the oculus. He and his family members are embraced by the butchers, grocers, and bakers of the neighborhood, whose clamor of stories and idiosyncratic child-rearing tips is as convincing as the town itself.

This intimate and revelatory book is a celebration of Rome, a wondrous take a look at new parenthood, and a remarkable story of a writer’s craft-the process where he transforms what he sees and experiences into sentences.