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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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At the age of 18 a Neapolitan boy, an orphan, receives the most important news of his life: about his parents, about the uprising of Napoli against Germans in 1943, about happiness. It consists in a wonderful and crazy girl who comes from the past.
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Erri De Luca was born in Naples in 1950 and today lives in the countryside near Rome. He is the author of more than 60 books, including God's Mountain and Three Horses (Other Press). He taught himself ancient Hebrew and translated several books of the Old Testament into Italian. His work has being translated and published in more than 30 languages. 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 translations
include God's Mountain and Three Horses, both by Erri De Luca, and The Silence of the Body by Guido Ceronetti.
Michael F. Moore is a New York-based translator and scholar whose previous translations
include God's Mountain and Three Horses, both by Erri De Luca, and The Silence of the Body by Guido Ceronetti.
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