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Trick
A Literary Fiction Novel by Domenico Starnone
Subgenres:
- Family Drama,
- Psychological Fiction,
- Naples
This book is for you if you're into...
- Psychological duels between generations in a single apartment
- Artistic self-doubt colliding with childhood memories
- Naples as a living, inescapable presence
A weary man faces the ghosts of his past while caring for his grandson in Naples in this National Book Award finalist novel.
In Tricks, Domenico Starnone presents an unusual duel between two formidable minds. One is Daniele Mallarico, a once-successful illustrator who feels his artistic prowess fading. The other is Mario, Daniele’s four-year-old grandson. 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. Meanwhile, Naples pulses outside, a wily, passionate city whose influence can never be shaken.
As translator Jhumpa Lahiri says in her introduction, Trick is “an extremely playful literary composition” by the Strega Prize–winning novelist whom many consider to be one of Italy’s greatest living writers.
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