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God's Mountain

God's Mountain

De Luca, Erri

Paperback

General FictionHistorical Fiction

ISBN10: 1573229601
ISBN13: 9781573229609
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Dec 3 2002
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.22
Language: English
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.

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