The Day Before Happiness: This is the day when the little orphan boy manages to fish the ball out from behind the foot of the marble statue. Now he is allowed to play with the older kids. It is also the day when he discovers a secret dungeon full of books beneath an old Neapolitan apartment building, where a Jew survived the war. And it is the day when the mysterious girl Anna leaves her place at the window on the third floor and walks towards him. Don Gaetano, the doorman of that very building, will soon become his fatherly friend. He not only introduces him to the secrets of card games but also to the art of mind reading. And he shows him how to survive in a city where luck and corruption are so closely intertwined. One of the most beautiful and successful novels by the Italian bestselling author.