The Day Before Happiness

De Luca, Erri

Omschrijving

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 encounter that will haunt his life for years and, eventually, shape his destiny. Lyrical and exuberant, told with the simplicity of a fairy tale and the intensity of a memory, The Day Before Happiness is the story of friendship, a city and what makes us who we are.
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Schrijver
De Luca, Erri
Titel
The Day Before Happiness
Uitgever
Penguin Books Ltd
Jaar
2017
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
128
Gewicht
119 gr
EAN
9780141984506
Afmetingen
198 x 129 x 10 mm
Bindwijze
Paperback / softback

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