Erri De Luca

The Day Before Happiness

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Happiness - was it right to name it without knowing it? It sounded shameless in my mouth, like when someone shows off about knowing a celebrity and just uses their first name, saying Marcello when they really mean Mastroianni ...A young orphan boy grows up in Naples, playing football, roaming the city 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 standing at a window. It is an enco… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Foulston, Jill (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-0-14-198450-6
EAN: 9780141984506
Produktnummer: 22163503
Verlag: Penguin Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 128 S.
Masse: H20.0 cm x B12.8 cm x D0.8 cm 101 g
Gewicht: 101

Über den Autor

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 Fémina 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.