God's Mountain

De Luca, Erri; Moore, Michael

ISBN 10: 1573229601 / ISBN 13: 9781573229609

Edité par Riverhead Books, New York, New York, U.S.A., 2002

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: God's Mountain
• Éditeur: Riverhead Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Date de parution: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1573229601
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781573229609
• Reliure: Soft Cover, Pictorial Wraps
• Édition: Uncorrected Proofs
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: No Dust Jacket as Issued

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Synopsis

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 home every Saturday from Mast’Errico’s carpentry workshop where he sweeps the floor. He is on his way to becoming a man—his boy’s voice is abandoning him. His wooden boomerang is neither toy nor tool, but something in between. Then there is Maria, the thirteen-year-old girl who lives above him and, like so many girls, is wiser than he.  She carries the burden of a secret life herself. She’ll speak to him for the first time this summer. There is also his friendship with a cobbler named Rafaniello, a Jewish refugee who has escaped the horrors of the Holocaust, who has no idea how long he’s been on this earth, and who is said to sprout wings for a blessed few.

 

It is 1963, a young man’s summer of discovery. A time for a boy with innocent hands and a pure heart to look beyond the ordinary in everyday things to see the far-reaching landscape, and all of its possibilities, from a rooftop terrace on God’s Mountain.

 

À propos de l?auteur

Erri De Luca was born in Naples in 1950. He is a columnist for Il Manifesto and a novelist whose work has been translated into seven languages. He lives outside of Rome.