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A darkly comic tale of a septuagenarian rediscovering love and life in Naples

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´Sad, funny, wise and unblinkingly honest, this is truly wonderful.´ Daily Mail

´I like the smell of pines and the aroma of freshly washed laundry. I like the rattle of hail on windowpanes and the texture of volcanic rock. I like the light in the sky when the sun has gone down. ´

Cesare is an unlikely hero. As he says himself, ´I am seventy-seven years old, and for seventy-two years and one hundred and eleven days I threw my life down the toilet...´ Is it too late for him to rediscover his passion for love and life?

Already an international bestseller, The Temptation to Be Happy is a coming-of-age story like no other.

´Immensely charming... Uplifting and very much on the side of life.´ Mail on Sunday

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´Sad, funny, wise and unblinkingly honest, this is truly wonderful.´
Daily Mail

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Lorenzo Marone was born in 1974. Originally trained as a lawyer, he gave up his career to follow his passion for writing. His first novel, The Temptation to Be Happy , is a major bestseller in Italy. It has been translated into fifteen languages and was used as the inspiration for a film released in Italy in April 2017. Lorenzo Marone lives in Naples with his wife and son.

Shaun Whiteside ´s translations from Italian include books by Tiziano Scarpa, Paolo Giordano, Melissa Panarello and Luther Blissett/Wu Ming Collective. He lives in London.

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