Erri De Luca
The Day Before Happiness
A Novel
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Just after World War II, a young orphan living in Naples comes under the protection of Don Gaetano, the superintendent of an apartment building. He is a generous man and is very attached to the boy, telling him about the war and the liberation of the city by the Neapolitans. He teaches him to play cards, shows him how to do odd jobs for the tenants, and even initiates him into the world of sex by sending him one evening to a widow who lives in the building. But Don Gaetano possesses another gift as well: he knows how to read people's thoughts and guesses correctly that his young friend is haunted by the image of a girl he noticed by chance be…
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Just after World War II, a young orphan living in Naples comes under the protection of Don Gaetano, the superintendent of an apartment building. He is a generous man and is very attached to the boy, telling him about the war and the liberation of the city by the Neapolitans. He teaches him to play cards, shows him how to do odd jobs for the tenants, and even initiates him into the world of sex by sending him one evening to a widow who lives in the building. But Don Gaetano possesses another gift as well: he knows how to read people's thoughts and guesses correctly that his young friend is haunted by the image of a girl he noticed by chance behind a window during a soccer match. Years later, when the girl returns, the orphan will need Don Gaetano's help more than ever.
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Moore, Michael (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-59051-482-5
- EAN: 9781590514825
- Produktnummer: 15735364
- Verlag: Other Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 91 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'235 KB
Über den Autor
Erri De Luca was born in Naples in 1950 and today lives in the countryside near Rome. He is the author of several novels, including God's Mountain and Three Horses (Other Press). He taught himself Hebrew and translated several books of the Bible into Italian. He is the most widely read Italian author alive today as well as an international best seller. Michael F. Moore is a New York-based translator and scholar whose previous translationsinclude God's Mountain and Three Horses, both by Erri De Luca, and The Silence of the Body by Guido Ceronetti.
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