Trick Starnone DomenicoPaperback
Trick Starnone DomenicoPaperback 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,…
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Trick Starnone DomenicoPaperback
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. The other is Mario, Daniele's four-year-old grandson. One is Daniele Mallarico, a once-successful illustrator who feels his artistic prowess fading.
Meanwhile, Naples pulses outside, a wily, passionate city whose influence can never be shaken.As translator Jhumpa 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.