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New Yorker Best Book of 2025
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Kirkus Best Fiction of 2025

From the author of Ties and The House on Via Gemito

★ “Starnone’s sensitivity, nuance, and subtlety are wonderful to behold.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Domenico Starnone’s The Old Man by the Sea is a slim masterpiece of a novel about an 82—year—old Neapolitan man, Nicola, who has spent his entire life telling stories, becoming very, very good at it. In words, with his pen, in the note...