The Temptation to Be Happy

Lorenzo Marone, Shaun Whiteside


Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
4.06 · 18 ratings · 272 pages · Published: 08 Jan 2015

The Temptation to Be Happy by Lorenzo Marone, Shaun Whiteside
Cesare is a seventy-seven-year-old widower and cynical troublemaker, a man who has always struggled to care for others and has given up trying. Aside from an intermittent fling with a nurse called Rossana, he avoids contact with his neighbours and even his own children.


One day, the enigmatic Emma moves into the neighbouring flat with her strange and sinister husband. Suspecting there is more to their relationship than meets the eye, Cesare decides to investigate. This new sense of purpose awakens his appetite for life, and he soon finds himself risking everything for a future he had never thought possible.

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