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Trick, Paperback / softback Book

Trick Paperback / softback

Illustrated by Dario Maglionico

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FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER LONGLISTED AND WINNER OF THE STREGA PRIZE THE HOUSE ON VIA GEMITO“Starnone uses languages the way a great painter works with colour, conjuring the illusion of three dimensions from a blank flat surface.”—Jhumpa Lahiri “Compelling… One of Italy’s most accomplished novelists.”—The Guardian "Trick is a chillingly weird chamber piece - a very tricksy treat.”—The Times Trick is a stylish drama about ambition, family, and old age that goes beyond the ordinary and predictable.

Imagine a duel between two men. One, Daniele Mallarico, is a successful illustrator who, in the twilight of his years, feels that his reputation and his artistic prowess are fading.

The other, Mario, is Daniele’s four-year-old grandson.

Daniele has been living in a cold northern city for years, in virtual solitude, focusing obsessively on his work, when his daughter asks if he would come to Naples for a few days and babysit Mario while she and her husband attend a conference.

Shut inside his childhood home-an apartment in the centre of Naples that is filled with the ghosts of Mallarico’s past-grandfather and grandson match wits as Daniele heads toward a reckoning with his own ambitions and life choices. Outside the apartment, pulses Naples, a wily, violent, and passionate city whose influence can never be shaken. 

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