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THE TEMPTATION TO BE HAPPY

Lorenzo Marone

220 pages

“Uh-oh, here comes another one of those colorful curmudgeons who drop pearls of senior wisdom on their way to a new lease on life. Cesar certainly fits the stereotype, but he’s funny, interesting and grumpy enough to stay on the winning side of the formula.”--The New York Times Book Review

"Marone’s characters, irreverent and absurd, embark on adventures they had ceased to allow themselves to imagine in this darkly comedic take on aging." -- World Literature Today

Cesare is 77 years old, a widower and cynical troublemaker, a man who has always had trouble caring for others and has given up trying. Aside from an intermittent fling with a mature nurse called Rossana, who moonlights as a sex worker, he prefers to live his own life, avoiding contact with his neighbors and even his own children wherever possible. Until one day, the enigmatic Emma moves into the neighboring flat.

Emma is ​​married to a strange and sinister man. A man that seems so different from Emma. As Cesare investigates, and starts to uncover the truth of their relationship, he begins to rediscover an appetite for life, and soon he finds himself risking everything for a future he had never thought possible.

PUBLISHED EDITIONS
Italian
LONGANESI, 2015/01
Der erste Tag vom Rest meines Lebens
German
PIPER, 2015/09
La tentation d'etr heureux
French
BELFOND, 2016/09
Forsøk på å være lykkelig
Norwegian
CAPPELEN DAMM, 2016/09
La tentación de ser felices
Spanish
HARPERCOLLINS (ES), 2016/10
A boldogság megkísértése
Hungarian
GABO, 2016/11
유혹은 행복합니다
Korean
DULNYOUK, 2017/03
La tenerezza
Audiovisual
PEPITO PRODUZIONI, 2017/04
A tentação de sermos felizes
Portuguese
PORTO EDITORA, 2017/05
Изкушението да бъдеш щастлив
Bulgarian
COLIBRI, 2017/06
The Temptation to Be Happy
English
ONEWORLD, 2017/10
Waarom het zo aantrekkelijk is om gelukkig te zijn
Dutch
PROMETHEUS, 2018/03
הפיתוי להיות מאושרים
Hebrew
KETER, 2018/10
Tentatia de a fi fericit
Romanian
HUMANITAS, 2018/11
Sitnice koje život znače
Serbian
HEARTEFACT, 2022/04
Listování Pokušení být šťastní
Czech
CZECH RADIO, 2023/01