Copyright © 2009 Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore Milano

Originally published in Italian as Il giorno prima della felicità by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Mailan, in 2009, by arrangement with Susanna Zevi Agenzia Letteraria.

Translation copyright © 2011 Michael F. Moore

Production Editor: Yvonne E. Cárdenas

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

De Luca, Erri, 1950–
   [Giorno prima della felicità. English]
   The day before happiness / by Erri De Luca ; translated by Michael F. Moore.
      p. cm.
eISBN: 978-1-59051-482-5 1. Naples (Italy)—History—1945—Fiction. I. Moore, Michael, 1954 Aug. 24– II. Title.
   PQ4864.E5498G5613 2011
   853′.914—dc23
                                             2011030641

PUBLISHER’S NOTE:
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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