
Day Before Happiness
by Erri De Luca
Title:
Day Before Happiness
Author:
Erri De Luca
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
128 pages
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN-13:
9780141984506
EAN:
9780141984506
Publication Date:
06/07/2017
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
224
Dimensions (mm):
200 x 131 x 8
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
''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''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 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.












