Erri De Luca

• Aug-1999
• / General Fiction
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Summer holiday on an island off the coast of Naples provides the setting for this lyrical novel which chronicles the relationship between an Italian boy and a German Jewish girl in the aftermath of World War II...

• Dec-2002
• / General Fiction
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This is a story told by a boy in his thirteenth year, recorded in his secret diary. His life is about to change; his world, about to open.He lives in Montedidio -- God’s Mountain -- a cluster of alleys in the heart of Naples. He brings a paycheck h...

• Sep-2005
• / General Fiction
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From Argentina to Italy, the intense, metaphysical and poetic story of a gardener in love, by Italy's most prominent writer. "A man's life lasts as long as three horses. You have already buried the first." Somewhere along the coastline of Italy,...

• Nov-2011
• / Literary
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The unnamed narrator of this slim, alluring novel recalls a summer spent at age sixteen on an idyllic Italian island off the coast of Naples in the 1950s, where he spends his days with Nicola, a local fisherman. The narrator falls in love with Caia, ...

• Nov-2011
• / Historical
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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...

• Jun-2022
• / General Fiction
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