Davide Enia

Asi en La Tierra (On Earth As It is in Heaven) Davide Enia

Publisher Marketing: Un cross en la mandibula que aplaudieron los lectores y criticos de todo el mundo. Amor y violencia o como hacerse un hombre en la mas despiadada de las islasDavidu sube a un ring por primera vez cuando tiene nueve anos. Ha crecido sin su padre -un pugil extraordinario fallecido poco antes de su nacimiento- en una Palermo violenta y luminosa, bajo la proteccion del gigantesco tio Umbertino y del enigmatico abuelo Rosario, que fue prisionero de guerra en Africa durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Asi en la tierra narra cincuenta anos de historia, y reune una galeria de personajes memorables: el gran amigo de Davidu, Gerruso; su entrenador de boxeo Franco; su madre, discreta y comprensiva; el teniente D'Arpa; la sabia abuela Provvidenza; el padrino Randazzo, y, sobre todo, su primer amor: Nina. Una gran historia, tragica, comica, inolvidable, que retrata a un nino que se convierte en hombre, y un mundo siempre en guerra, lleno de gracia y ferocidad. English Description A dark, gripping coming-of-age tale that explores violence, friendship, family, and what it means to be a man. Summer, Palermo, early 1980s. The air hangs hot and heavy. The Mafia-ruled city is a powder keg ready to ignite. In a boxing gym, a fatherless nine-year-old boy climbs into the ring to face his first opponent. So begins On Earth as It Is in Heaven, a sweeping multigenerational saga that reaches back to the collapse of the Italian front in North Africa and forward to young Davidu's quest to become Italy's national boxing champion, a feat that has eluded the other men of his family. But Davide Enia, whose layered, lyrical, nonchronological novel caused a sensation when it was published in Italy in 2012, has crafted an epic that soars in miniature as well. The brutal struggles for dominance among Davidu's all male circle of friends; his strict but devoted grandmother, whose literacy is a badge of honor; his charismatic and manipulative great-uncle, who will become his trainer--the vicious scenes and sometimes unsympathetic characters Enia sketches land hard and true. On Earth as It Is in Heaven is both firmly grounded in what Leonardo Sciascia liked to call "Sicilitude" - the language and mentality of that eternally perplexing island - and devastatingly universal. A meditation on physical violence, love and sex, friendship and betrayal, boxing and ambition, Enia's novel is also a coming-of-age tale that speaks - sometimes crudely, but always honestly - about the joys and terrors of becoming a man." Contributor Bio:  Enia, Davide Davide Enia was born in 1974 in Palermo. He has written, directed, and performed in plays for the stage and the radio, and has been honored with the Ubu Prize, the Tondelli Award, and the ETI Award, Italy's three most prestigious theater prizes. He lives and cooks in Rome. "On Earth as It Is in Heaven" is his first novel.