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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 . . . 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. The 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. Told with the simplicity of a fairy tale and the intensity of a memory, The Day Before Happinessis the story of friendship, a city and what makes us who we are."
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The Day Before Happiness, Erri De Luca, Michael F. Moore, Jill Foulston
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- Released
- 2016,
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- Title
- The Day Before Happiness
- Subtitle
- Der Tag vor dem Glück, englische Ausgabe
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Erri De Luca, Michael F. Moore, Jill Foulston
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Released
- 2016
- Pages
- 128
- ISBN10
- 0141398396
- ISBN13
- 9780141398396
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Romance, Historical Fiction, Love, Contemporary Fiction, Friendship, Contemporary Romance, Military Fiction, Wars, World War II, Southern Europe, Italy, Games, Coming Of Age, Italian Literature, Young Adult Romance, Future, First love, Wisdom of Life, Rebellion, Uprising, Naples, Knives
- Original title
- Il giorno prima della felicitá
- Rating
- 3.65 out of 5
- 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 . . . 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. The 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. Told with the simplicity of a fairy tale and the intensity of a memory, The Day Before Happinessis the story of friendship, a city and what makes us who we are."