Erri De Luca: God's Mountain

God's Mountain


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This is a story told by a boy in his thirteenth year, recorded in his secret diary. His life is about to change; his world, about to open. He lives in Montedidio God s Mountain a cluster of alleys in the heart of Naples. He brings a paycheck home every Saturday from Mast Errico s carpentry workshop where he sweeps the floor. He is on his way to becoming a man his boy s voice is abandoning him. His wooden boomerang is neither toy nor tool, but something in between. Then there is Maria, the thirteen-year-old girl who lives above him and, like so many girls, is wiser than he. She carries the burden of a secret life herself. She ll speak to him for the first time this summer. There is also his friendship with a cobbler named Rafaniello, a Jewish refugee who has escaped the horrors of the Holocaust, who has no idea how long he s been on this earth, and who is said to sprout wings for a blessed few. It is 1963, a young man s summer of discovery. A time for a boy with innocent hands and a pure heart to look beyond the ordinary in everyday things to see the far-reaching landscape, and all of its possibilities, from a rooftop terrace on God s Mountain."

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Author: Erri De Luca
Number of Pages: 168 pages
Published Date: 03 Dec 2002
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Publication Country: New York, NY, United States
Language: English, Italian
ISBN: 9781573229609
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