{"product_id":"the-fall-isbn-9781590517000","title":"The Fall","description":"THE FALL is a memoir like no other. Its 424 short passages match the number of steps taken by Diogo Mainardi's son Tito as he walks, with great difficulty, alongside his father through the streets of Venice, the city where a medical mishap during Tito's birth left him with Cerebral Palsy. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs they make their way toward the hospital where both their lives changed forever, Mainairdi begins to draw on his knowledge of art and history, seeking to better explain a tragedy that was entirely avoidable. From Marcel Proust to Neil Young, to Sigmund Freud to Humpty Dumpty, to Renaissance Venice and Auschwitz, he charts the trajectory of the Western world, with Tito at its center, showing how his fate has been shaped by the past. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTold with disarming simplicity; by turns angry, joyful, and always generous, wise and suprising, THE FALL is an anstonishing book.\u003cp\u003e\"Genius…Each of the text’s 424 fragmentary entries exemplifies the wild, illogical path the mind takes on the way to getting a grip, or to losing one…Mainardi has crafted a masterly work in the best memoir tradition, placing emphasis less on \u003ci\u003ewhat happened\u003c\/i\u003e than on what he (and therefore we) can perceive \u003ci\u003ebecause it happened\u003c\/i\u003e.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Odd and enchanting...Paternal rage, fear, guilt, and joy suffuse every page...Any parent of a child with or without a disability will appreciate [\u003ci\u003eThe Fall\u003c\/i\u003e's] eloquence.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A new way to think about imperfection, expectation, exaltation, and love.\" —NPR, \u003ci\u003eWeekend Edition Saturday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mainardi creates a particular journey into the universe of his mind, directed by his son.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A heartbreaking, brain-expanding hymn of love by a father for his son.\" —\u003ci\u003eOprah.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Masterfully written...A singularly compelling memoir.\" —\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e (Starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mainardi...picks the world up and erects it as a monument of meaning to his own son.\" —\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[I]ndelible...This poetic and unsentimental memoir shines with a father’s love and a child’s indomitable spirit.\" —\u003ci\u003eBBC.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Heartbreaking, astonishing and wise, Mainardi’s telling of Tito’s story is not to be missed.\" —\u003ci\u003eBook Reporter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[O]riginal, defying common precepts of what the reader believes he is reading.\" —\u003ci\u003eCounterPunch Weekend Edition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] beautiful book.\" —\u003ci\u003eTweed's Book Blog\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Fall\u003c\/i\u003e is a mercurial and enriching walk through 'off-script' fatherhood, cerebral palsy, art history, and this commonplace mystery, love. \u003ci\u003eThe Fall\u003c\/i\u003e is wise and kind and moving.” —David Mitchell, best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eCloud Atlas\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A wise and unsentimental description of what it is like to be parent to a child with cerebral palsy—an episodic portrait of a very intimate paternal journey.” —Andrew Solomon, National Book Award–winning author of \u003ci\u003eFar from the Tree\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Noonday Demon\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Fathering a disabled child, like the plaza outside the Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo to which Diogo Mainardi consistently returns, is uneven terrain. In \u003ci\u003eThe Fall\u003c\/i\u003e, Mainardi traverses that terrain in 424 lucid, deeply arresting steps.” —Ron Suskind, Pultizer Prize–winning journalist and author of \u003ci\u003eLife, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Fall\u003c\/i\u003e, Diogo Mainardi's remarkable celebration of his son Tito, who was born with cerebral palsy because of a doctor's negligence, is intensely moving, rational, literate, and an absolute joy to read from start to finish.” —John Berendt, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eMidnight In the Garden of Good and Evil\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe City of Falling Angels\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Fall \u003c\/i\u003eis a moving portrait of a relationship with a child and a place.  It is a rare book; by turns heartbreaking, angry, and lyrical.” —Edmund de Waal, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Hare with Amber Eyes\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eThe Fall\u003c\/i\u003e] will intrigue, delight and surprise you.\" —\u003ci\u003eBLOOM Blog\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"The Fall \u003c\/i\u003econnects the disparate, and what results is an artful collage of acceptance, growth and appreciation.\" —\u003ci\u003eSacramento News \u0026amp; Reviews \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[E]nthralling...a stirring reminder of how much a fallacy 'inferiority' is.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Jersey Journal \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiogo Mainardi\u003c\/b\u003e is a Brazilian writer, journalist, and TV commentator, known for his articles in Brazil's largest weekly magazine, \u003ci\u003eVeja\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMargaret Jull Costa\u003c\/b\u003e has been a literary translator for over twenty-five years and has translated many novels and short stories by Portuguese, Spanish, and Latin American writers, including Javier Marías and José Saramago. She has won various prizes for her work, including, in 2008, the PEN Book-of-the-Month Translation Award and the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize for her version of Eça de Queiroz's masterpiece \u003ci\u003eThe Maias\u003c\/i\u003e, and, most recently, the 2011 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize for \u003ci\u003eThe Elephant's Journey\u003c\/i\u003e by José Saramago. She lives in Leicester, England.Tito has cerebral palsy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI blame Tito’s cerebral palsy on Pietro Lombardo. In 1489, Pietro Lombardo designed the Scuola Grande di San Marco. And it was the Scuola Grande di San Marco designed by Pietro Lombardo that brought about Tito’s cerebral palsy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn September 30, 2000, my wife and I set off for Venice Hospital in Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo. Our son would be born that day. My wife’s name: Anna. Our son’s name: yes, that’s right, Tito. When we reached Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo, next to the statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni, Anna said: “I’m really worried about the birth.” She had expressed the same fear in previous weeks, because Venice Hospital, now looming before us, was known for its medical errors. I studied its façade for a moment. Venice Hospital moved into the Scuola Grande di San Marco in 1808. The façade, designed by Pietro Lombardo in 1489, became the hospital’s main entrance. I said: “With a façade like that, I could even accept having a deformed child.”","brand":"Other Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303512363237,"sku":"NP9781590517000","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590517000.jpg?v=1767739275","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-fall-isbn-9781590517000","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}