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 New York Public Collection, the Country wide Endowment for the Arts, and the American Library Association. Then came the Rome Reward, probably one of the most renowned awards through the American Academy of Arts and Words, and with it a stipend about Four Periods in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the largest Funeral in the History of the World and a composing studio in Rome for a year. Doerr discovered of the award the day he and his wife came back from a healthcare facility with newborn twins.

Exquisitely observed, Four Seasons in Rome describes Doerr’s varied adventures in another of probably the most enchanting metropolitan areas in the world. He reads Pliny, Dante, and Keats — the chroniclers of Rome who arrived before him-and trips the piazzas, temples, and ancient cisterns they describe. He attends the vigil of a dying Pope John Paul II and requires his twins towards the Pantheon in December to hold back for snow to fall through the oculus. He and his family are embraced by the butchers, grocers, and bakers of a nearby, whose clamor of tales and idiosyncratic child-rearing suggestions is as powerful as the town itself.

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