{"product_id":"trick","title":"Trick","description":"\u003cp\u003eA weary man faces the ghosts of his past while caring for his grandson in Naples in this National Book Award finalist novel by the acclaimed author of Ties.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Trick, Domenico Starnone presents an unusual duel between two formidable minds. One is Daniele Mallarico, a once-successful illustrator who feels his artistic prowess fading. The other is Mario, Daniele's four-year-old grandson. Daniele is living in virtual solitude in Milan when his daughter asks him to come to Naples to babysit Mario for a few days\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eShut inside his childhood home--an apartment in the center of Naples that is filled with memoires of Daniele's past--grandfather and grandson match wits as Daniele heads toward a reckoning with his own ambitions and life choices. Meanwhile, Naples pulses outside, a wily, passionate city whose influence can never be shaken.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs translator Jhumpa Lahiri says in her introduction, Tricks is \"an extremely playful literary composition\" by the Strega Prize-winning novelist whom many consider to be one of Italy's greatest living writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 191\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Europa Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781609454449\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Europa Editions","offers":[{"title":"Poor Condition — £2.00","offer_id":47958464626865,"sku":"SB-1609454448-C4","price":2.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/1609454448.jpg?v=1790049557","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/trick","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}