Synopsis
About Erri De Luca
See more books from this AuthorThe narrator, an orphan, grows up a young man in postwar Naples, tutored by Don Gaetano, an apartment super and wise old man who was out of sympathy with the Fascists.
Sep 20 2011 | Read Full Review of The Day Before HappinessIt is obvious that Mr. De Luca does not think of people as numbers.
Nov 21 2011 | Read Full Review of The Day Before HappinessDon Gaetano is a generous man and gets attached to the young man telling him about the war and the liberation of the city by its inhabitants.
Nov 21 2011 | Read Full Review of The Day Before HappinessYears pass, the boy is now becoming a man and Don Gaetano has begun teaching him the ways of love, including sending him up to visit a widow who needs lots of things “fixed” in her apartment.
Jan 02 2012 | Read Full Review of The Day Before HappinessThe title comes from something the Jew tells Don Gaetano when he asks him to cast a stone in the water for him the day before the Jewish New Year, making that day the day before happiness.
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