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When Things Happen - A Novel
Angelo Cannavacciuolo; Translated by Gregory Pell; Foreword by Jay Parini
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R443
Discovery Miles 4 430
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Michele Campo is living the bourgeois Italian dream. Now a speech
pathologist in his forties, he resides in an expensive Naples home
with his partner, Costanza, daughter of an upper-class family.
Michele’s own family origins, however, are murkier. When he is
assigned to work with five-year-old foster child Martina, he grows
increasingly engrossed by her case, as his own buried family
history slowly claws its way back to the surface. The first novel
by acclaimed Italian writer Angelo Cannavacciuolo to be translated
into English, When Things Happen tells a powerful and
intriguing story of what we lose when we leave our origins behind.
It presents a panoramic view of Neapolitan society unlike any in
literature, revealing a city of extreme contrasts, with a glamorous
center ringed by suburban squalor. Above all, it is a
psychologically nuanced portrait of a man struggling to locate what
he values in life and the poor vulnerable child who helps him
find it. Â
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When Things Happen - A Novel
Angelo Cannavacciuolo; Translated by Gregory Pell; Foreword by Jay Parini
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R1,497
Discovery Miles 14 970
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Michele Campo is living the bourgeois Italian dream. Now a speech
pathologist in his forties, he resides in an expensive Naples home
with his partner, Costanza, daughter of an upper-class family.
Michele’s own family origins, however, are murkier. When he is
assigned to work with five-year-old foster child Martina, he grows
increasingly engrossed by her case, as his own buried family
history slowly claws its way back to the surface. The first novel
by acclaimed Italian writer Angelo Cannavacciuolo to be translated
into English, When Things Happen tells a powerful and
intriguing story of what we lose when we leave our origins behind.
It presents a panoramic view of Neapolitan society unlike any in
literature, revealing a city of extreme contrasts, with a glamorous
center ringed by suburban squalor. Above all, it is a
psychologically nuanced portrait of a man struggling to locate what
he values in life and the poor vulnerable child who helps him
find it. Â
This book is addressed to “lovers of paradoxes” and we have
done our utmost to assemble a stellar cast of Neapolitan and
American scholars, intellectuals, and artists/writers who are
strong and open-minded enough to wrestle with and illuminate the
paradoxes through which Naples presents itself. Naples is a
mysterious metropolis. Difficult to understand, it is an enigma to
outsiders, and also to the Neapolitans themselves. Its very
impenetrableness is what makes it so deliriously and irresistibly
attractive. The essays attempt to give some hints to the answer of
the enigma, without parsing it into neat scholastic formulas. In
doing this, the book will be an important means of opening Naples
to students, scholars and members of the community at large who are
engaged in “identity-work.” A primary goal has been to
establish a dialogue with leading Neapolitan intellectuals and
artists, and, ultimately, ensure that the “deliriously
Neapolitan” dance continues.
This book is addressed to "lovers of paradoxes" and we have done
our utmost to assemble a stellar cast of Neapolitan and American
scholars, intellectuals, and artists/writers who are strong and
open-minded enough to wrestle with and illuminate the paradoxes
through which Naples presents itself. Naples is a mysterious
metropolis. Difficult to understand, it is an enigma to outsiders,
and also to the Neapolitans themselves. Its very impenetrableness
is what makes it so deliriously and irresistibly attractive. The
essays attempt to give some hints to the answer of the enigma,
without parsing it into neat scholastic formulas. In doing this,
the book will be an important means of opening Naples to students,
scholars and members of the community at large who are engaged in
"identity-work." A primary goal has been to establish a dialogue
with leading Neapolitan intellectuals and artists, and, ultimately,
ensure that the "deliriously Neapolitan" dance continues.
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