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The
2004 Award
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God's
Mountain by
Erri de Luca |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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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 Master 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 1960, a young man's summer of discovery. A time for a boy with innocent hands and 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. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Erri
De Luca was born in Naples, Italy, in 1950. He is a columnist for Il
Manifesto and a novelist whose work has been translated into seven
languages. He lives outside Rome.
The
translator, Michael Moore, is a New York-based writer, translator, and
teacher. His previous translations include The Silence of the Body
by Guido Ceronetti. |
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