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Paperback 192 Pages
Published: 22/03/2018
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Imagine a duel. A face-off between a man and a boy.

The same blood runs through their veins. One, Daniele Mallarico, is a successful illustrator at the peak of his career. The other, Mario, is his four-year-old grandson who has barely learned to talk but has a few tricks up his loose-fitting sleeves all the same. The older combatant has lived for years in almost complete solitude. The younger one has been dumped with a grandfather he barely knows for 72 hours.

Starnone’s sharp novella unfolds within the four walls (and a balcony!) of the apartment where the grandfather grew up, now the home of his daughter and her family, where the rage of an aging man meets optimism incarnate in the shape of a four-year-old child.

Lurking, ever present in the conflict, is the memory of Naples, a wily, violent, and passionate city where the old man spent his youth and whose influence is not easily shaken.

Publisher: Europa Editions
ISBN: 9781609454449
Number of pages: 192
Dimensions: 210 x 135 mm

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“An elegant and economical masterpiece....”

Domenic Starnone is a master of at condensing masterfully woven rich stories into short novels. In a nutshell, grandfather is looking after his grandson over a long weekend triggering old haunting stories from past... More

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