The Temptation to Be Happy

Informationen zum Autor Lorenzo Marone was born in 1974. Originally trained as a lawyer, he gave up his career to follow his passion for writing. His first novel, The Temptation to Be Happy, is a major bestseller in Italy. It has been translated into fifteen languages and was used as the inspiration for a film released in Italy in April 2017. Lorenzo Marone lives in Naples with his wife and son. Shaun Whiteside’s translations from Italian include books by Tiziano Scarpa, Paolo Giordano, Melissa Panarello and Luther Blissett/Wu Ming Collective. He lives in London. Klappentext Cesare is a seventy-seven-year-old widower and cynical troublemaker. He has lived his whole life by his own rules and has no intention of changing now. Aside from an intermittent fling with a nurse called Rossana, he spends his days avoiding the old cat lady next door and screening calls from his children.But when the enigmatic Emma moves in next door with her strange and sinister husband, Cesare suspects there is more to their relationship than meets the eye. He enlists the other residents to help him investigate and soon discovers a new and unexpected sense of purpose that leads him to risk everything for a future he had never thought possible. Zusammenfassung A darkly comic tale of a septuagenarian rediscovering love and life in Naples

Product details

• Authors: Lorenzo Marone
• Assisted by: Shaun Whiteside (Translation), Whiteside Shaun (Translation)
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 09.05.2018
• EAN: 9781786073525
• ISBN: 978-1-78607-352-5
• No. of pages: 247
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, FICTION / Coming of Age, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Fiction in translation, Italy, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary