About the book: 2011 / The famous Italian writer Sandro Veronesi in the novel Calm Chaos, through complex dramatic collisions of the main characters, leads readers to a simple truth: a person must be accepted as such, what he is. Human nature, with its ordinariness and heroism, strength and weakness, reason and instincts, is the main object of study by the author of the novel. For this work, the writer received several prestigious literary awards (including the Italian Strega Prize and the French Femina Prize) and one religious scandal: Catholic readers were outraged by the detailed description of the act of sodomy. In general, S. Veronesi offered us a very important work, the maturity and depth of which captures the very essence of human relations.