The Old Man by the Sea - Starnone, Domenico
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From the author of Ties and The House on Via Gemito Domenico Starnone's The Old Man by the Sea is a slim masterpiece of a novel about an 82-year-old Neapolitan man, Nicola, who has spent his entire life telling stories, becoming very, very good at it. In words, with his pen, in the notebook he carries with him everywhere, he records life's minutiae, its ephemera, those vibrating essences and almost imperceptible atoms of existence that most of us barely notice but that constitute the very stuff of life. Yes, recording the universe in each grain of sand has become second nature to Nicola. But…mehr

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From the author of Ties and The House on Via Gemito Domenico Starnone's The Old Man by the Sea is a slim masterpiece of a novel about an 82-year-old Neapolitan man, Nicola, who has spent his entire life telling stories, becoming very, very good at it. In words, with his pen, in the notebook he carries with him everywhere, he records life's minutiae, its ephemera, those vibrating essences and almost imperceptible atoms of existence that most of us barely notice but that constitute the very stuff of life. Yes, recording the universe in each grain of sand has become second nature to Nicola. But of course, there is always something that escapes. Something unnamable that resists, remaining on the margins, slithering away, a movement intuited rather than identified. And this fact, for Nicola, is a source of deep anxiety and a growing sense of failure. Now, ensconced in a house on the dunes south of Rome, Nicola spends his mornings writing, watching the waves, and observing Lu, a store clerk in her twenties whose graceful canoeing stirs faint echoes of his mother--a glamorous, headstrong woman who defied convention with her beauty and creativity. As Nicola reflects on the women who shaped him and the passions he has never outgrown, he finds himself drawn into the nefarious intrigues of the small seaside town and its inhabitants. He will end by embarking on an improbable and ill-advised kayak adventure of his own with Lu's young son, as Starnone himself brings this slim, virtuoso novel about eros and melancholy, memory and reinvention, age and imagination, to an unexpected conclusion.
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Domenico Starnone is considered by many to be Italy's greatest living author. He was born in 1943 in Naples and currently lives in Rome. He is the author of fifteen best-selling works of fiction, including: Ties, a New York Times Editors Pick and Notable Book of the Year, and a Sunday Times and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year; Trick, a Finalist for the 2018 National Book Award and the 2019 PEN Translation Prize; and, Trust, "a short, sharp novel that cuts like a scalpel to the core of its characters" (LA Times). All three of these novels were translated by Pulitzer Prize-winner, Jhumpa Lahiri. In 2023, Europa released the Strega Prize-winning The House on Via Gemito in a translation by Oonagh Stransky. It was named a Washington Post and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year and New York Times Editors Choice. In 2024, again in Oonagh Stransky's translation, Europa released The Mortal and Immortal Life of the Girl from Milan, which in a New Yorker in brief mention was described as "wonderfully off-kilter." Starnone is the recipient many of Italy's major literary prizes, including: the Strega prize, the Napoli prize, and the Campiello prize.