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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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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.
Micheleās 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,Ā When Things HappenĀ 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 lifeĀ and the poor vulnerable child who helps him
find it.Ā Ā
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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.
Micheleās 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,Ā When Things HappenĀ 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 lifeĀ and the poor vulnerable child who helps him
find it.Ā Ā
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