The House on Via Gemito

The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone & Oonagh Stransky


ISBN
9781787705463
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
464
Dimensions
129 x 198mm

"Longlisted for the INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2024

Winner of the STREGA PRIZE

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2024

""Starnone uses languages the way a great painter works with colour, conjuring the illusion of three dimensions from a blank flat surface."" -Jhumpa Lahiri

""One of Italy's most accomplished novelists."" -The Guardian 

""Masterly."" -Times Literary Supplement 

The modest apartment on Via Gemito smells of paint and white spirit. The furniture is pushed up against the wall to create a make-shift studio, and drying canvases must be moved off the beds each night.

Federi, a railway clerk, is convinced that, if he didn't have a family to feed, he'd be a world-famous painter. Talented, ambitious, and frustrated, his life is marked by bitter disappointment. His long-suffering wife and their four sons bear the brunt. 

Years later, his first-born son will tell the story of a man he spent his whole life trying not to resemble. 

Narrated against the background of a Naples still marked by WWII and first published in Italy over 20 years ago, The House on Via Gemito is a masterpiece of contemporary Italian literature. "
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