by Erri de Luca · Ediciones Akal · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788446017493
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«Montedidio» is the coming-of-age novel by Erri de Luca, published by Ediciones Akal in paperback (144 pages, in Spanish).
Set in postwar Naples, the novel narrates the initiation into friendship, love and death of a thirteen-year-old boy who learns to work and discovers love while training to make a piece of wood fly. He is accompanied by a Jewish cobbler from northern Europe, with whom he will share a prophecy in the Montedidio neighborhood.
Part of Akal's Literaria collection (no. 43), translated by César Palma. Winner of the Prix Femina in 2002.
Recommended for readers of coming-of-age novels and contemporary Italian fiction.
Enrico "Erri" De Luca is an Italian novelist, translator and poet. He has been recognized by critic Giorgio De Rienzo of Corriere della Sera as "the writer of the decade". He is also known for his opposition to the Lyon-Turin high speed train line, and is being sued for having called for its sabotage. On 19 October 2015, De Luca was cleared of inciting criminal damage. He reacted to the not-guilty verdict declaring that "An injustice has been avoided."
