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The Hummingbird (Italian: Il colibrì) is a 2019 novel by Sandro Veronesi. The novel is presented in fragments with a nonlinear narrative structure and follows the tumultuous life of ophthalmologist Marco Carrera. [1] The novel won the prestigious Strega Prize (2020).
Spencer's second novel, Hummingbird, was rejected by her editor at Avon and also by another editor at Jove, although Jove later published the novel in 1983. Both publishing companies faulted the book for having too much humor and for being too narrow in scope, as the bulk of the book was set within a single house.
In 2013, Hiekkapelto published her first novel, Kolibri (Hummingbird). Its protagonist, a police detective, Anna Fekete, is an immigrant to Finland from the erstwhile Yugoslavia. The book was a critical as well as popular success, and has been translated into several languages, including English and German.
Between the pages of her collection, “Once in Puerto Rico,” Belprée includes “The Legend of The Hummingbird,” which weaves a similar story to Lopez’s opening for “This is Me...
Ian McDonald was born on 18 April 1933, in St Augustine, Trinidad, where his mother, Thelma McDonald (née Seheult), and her parents were born and where his father, John Archie McDonald (who was born in St. Kitts and whose parents were born in Antigua), was Agricultural Director of Gordon Grant Limited.
Lisa See (born 18 February 1955) is an American writer and novelist. Her books include On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family (1995), a detailed account of See's family history, and the novels Flower Net (1997), The Interior (1999), Dragon Bones (2003), Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (2005), Peony in Love (2007) and Shanghai Girls (2009), which made it to ...
Hummingbird (released as Redemption in the United States) is a 2013 action crime drama film written and directed by Steven Knight in his directorial debut. It stars Jason Statham as a haunted, alcoholic veteran who befriends a Catholic nun, becomes involved in organized crime , and exacts vengeance on a man who beats and kills prostitutes.
Researchers strapped tiny backpacks to hummingbirds to study migration and discovered the world’s largest hummingbird species is distinct from another type.