{"product_id":"domenico-starnone-trick-9781609454449","title":"Trick","description":"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. ","brand":"Europa Editions","offers":[{"title":"Used - like new","offer_id":53418962256214,"sku":"9781609454449-N","price":12.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9781609454449_1.jpg?v=1778201578","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/domenico-starnone-trick-9781609454449","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}