A weary man faces the ghosts of his past while caring for his grandson
in Naples in this National Book Award finalist novel by the acclaimed
author of Ties. In Tricks, Domenico Starnone presents an unusual
duel between two formidable minds. One is Daniele Mallarico, a
once-successful illustrator who feels his artistic prowess fading. The
other is Mario, Daniele’s four-year-old grandson. Daniele is living
in virtual solitude in Milan when his daughter asks him to come to
Naples to babysit Mario for a few days. Shut inside his childhood
home―an apartment in the center of Naples that is filled with
memoires of Daniele’s past―grandfather and grandson match wits as
Daniele heads toward a reckoning with his own ambitions and life
choices. Meanwhile, Naples pulses outside, a wily, passionate city
whose influence can never be shaken. As translator Jhumpa Lahiri
says in her introduction, Trick is “an extremely playful literary
composition” by the Strega Prize–winning novelist whom many
consider to be one of Italy’s greatest living writers.
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ISBN
9781609454456
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Vendor
Europa Editions
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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