Name: When Things Happen
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Author: Cannavacciuolo, Angelo ; Pell, Gregory ; Parini, Jay
ISBN: 9781978837102

Type

Physical Book

Author

Angelo Cannavacciuolo

Preface by

Jay Parini

Translated by

Gregory Pell

Publisher

Rutgers University Press

Language

English

Pages

272

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.1 x 14.2 x 4.8 cm

Weight

0.27 kg.

ISBN13

9781978837102

Synopsis "When Things Happen"

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. Michele's 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, When Things Happen 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 life and the poor vulnerable child who helps him find it.

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