The Day Before Happiness
$31.62
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
17 September 2017
Summary
A charming story of friendship, love, sex and memory from the bestselling Italian novelist
A young orphan boy grows up in Naples, playing football, roaming the city’s streets and hidden places. The older boys call him ‘monkey’ because he can climb anywhere. He is alone, apart from Don Gaetano, the apartment caretaker, who feeds him, teaches him to play scopa, and tells him stories about women, history and the dark secrets of Naples’ past. Then one day the boy sees a young girl standin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141984506 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141984503 |
| Author: | Erri De Luca, Jill Foulston |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 17 September 2017 |
| Weight: | 102g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 8mm |
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Powered by a combination of charm, warmth and simplicity… poignancy gives way to wry humour at regular intervals throughout the book, and the result is a brittle, lyrical, finely poised tragicomedy – Malcolm Forbes * Herald Scotland *
An economically expressed yet vividly imagined coming-of-age story… De Luca is a native of Naples and in a sense this book is a love letter to the city – Roger Cox * Scotsman *
High hopes in clear language, cautions against real evil, and scenes thick with poetic sentiment - these elements fuel the warmth to be found in De Luca’s brief but affecting novels * The National *
The only true first-rate writer that the new millennium has given us so far * Corriere della Serra *
About The Author
Erri De Luca
Erri De Luca (Author)
Born in Naples in 1950, Erri De Luca is one of Italy’s bestselling novelists, whose work has been translated into many languages. He was awarded the France Culture Prize in 1994, the Femina Etranger in 2002 and, in 2013, he received the European Prize for Literature. He is also a translator from Ancient Hebrew and Yiddish. A passionate mountain climber, he currently lives in the countryside near Rome.
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