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Just after World War II, a young orphan living in Naples comes under the protection of Don Gaetano, the superintendent of an apartment building. He is a generous man and is very attached to the boy, telling him about the war and the liberation of the city by the Neapolitans. He teaches him to play cards, shows him how to do odd jobs for the tenants, and even initiates him into the world of sex by sending him one evening to a widow who lives in the building. But Don Gaetano possesses another gift as well: he knows how to read people’s thoughts.

Mit der klaren, bildreichen Sprache des Südens erzählt Erri De Luca die Geschichte eines Waisenjungen, der im Schatten des Vesuvs erwachsen wird. Es ist zugleich eine Liebeserklärung an seine Stadt Neapel: an ihre morbide Schönheit und an ihre freiheitsliebenden, stolzen Bewohner.

Hope. Glamour. Independence. A new era has begun… ‘A wonderfully absorbing tale of friendship, rich in period detail’ Stylist ***** With the Great War behind them, four friends are ready to live again. Lydia, a society beauty, has everything – wealth, status and a husband who survived...