The Old Man by the Sea by Domenico Starnone instant download

The Old Man by the Sea by Domenico Starnone instant download

From the author of Ties and The House on Via Gemito

★ "Starnone's sensitivity, nuance, and subtlety are wonderful to behold."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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...