God's Mountain Paperback - 2002
by Erri De Luca
This international bestseller is a story told by an Italian boy in his 13th year, recorded in his secret diary. It is 1963, a young man's summer of discovery--a time for a boy with innocent hands and a pure heart to look beyond the ordinary in everyday things to see the far-reaching landscape, and all of its possibilities, from a rooftop terrace on God's Mountain.
Summary
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.
It is 1963, a young man’s summer of discovery. A time for a boy with innocent hands and a pure heart to look beyond the ordinary in everyday things to see the far-reaching landscape, and all of its possibilities, from a rooftop terrace on God’s Mountain.
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- Title God's Mountain
- Author Erri De Luca
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Printing
- Pages 176
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Riverhead Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2002-12-03
- ISBN 9781573229609 / 1573229601
- Weight 0.41 lbs (0.19 kg)
- Dimensions 7.22 x 5 x 0.39 in (18.34 x 12.70 x 0.99 cm)
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- Topical: Coming of Age
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002031769
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Booklist, 12/15/2002, Page 731
- Booksense '76 Mar/Apr 2003, 03/01/2003, Page 1
- Kirkus Reviews, 10/15/2002, Page 1491
- Publishers Weekly, 12/09/2002, Page 63
- School Library Journal, 06/01/2003, Page 175
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