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Product details:
- Publisher Rutgers University Press
- Date of Publication 13 October 2023
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781978837102
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 203x127x20 mm
- Weight 41 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 0 figures 553
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Short description:
Michele Campo is a speech pathologist living the high life in Naples. But when he begins to treat a poor foster child, he is forced to confront dark family secrets about his own rise from poverty. The award-winning When Things Happen tells a powerful story about memory, destiny, and class consciousness in one of Italy’s most divided cities.
MoreLong description:
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.
"Angelo Cannavacciuolo has long deserved U.S. publication, and this novel may be his most spectacular and beautiful. When Things Happen shows prodigious range, setting the rich and coddled across a café table from hardscrabble slum dwellers. It's a portrait in the round, shot through with compassion and stirring poetry. Overall, it feels like Elena Ferrante's entire Neapolitan Quartet wrapped up in one, illuminating both a city unlike any other and a whole world tormented by the rift between Haves and Have-nots." More
Table of Contents:
Introduction, Jay Parini
Author's Preface
When Things Happen
Acknowledgments from Original Author
Notes on Contributors
