Joke

About This Novel

Italian writer Domenico Starnone once again focuses on family relationships after "Shoelace", a family version of "Lord of the Flies". Reading family secrets, the looming sense of mortality - hits you like it does when you're no longer young. Imagine two men dueling. One is the famous illustrator Daniel Mararico, who in his later years feels that his reputation and creativity are fading; the other is his four-year-old grandson Mario. For many years, Daniel lived alone in Milan, focusing on his creations. One day, his daughter, who teaches at the university, asks him to come back to Naples to stay for a few days and look after little Mario while she is on a business trip with her husband, who she is not in love with. Seventy-year-old Mallarico had to return to his hometown and live in the apartment where he spent his childhood and which was full of "ghosts" of the past. While the exhausted and absent-minded old painter battled wits with the tireless "little warrior", he also fell into deep thought about his ideals and life choices. A violent, unstable and passionate Naples emerged, and the mark it left on Daniel is still clear. Following "Shoelace", Domenico Starnone once again focuses on family relationships in his new work "Joke". While using a compact novel to keep readers smiling, he also did not forget to accurately analyze people's fears and the feeling of being at a loss when facing the tenacity of life.

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