The House on Via Gemito

Domenico Starnone, Oonagh Stransky (trans.)

The House on Via Gemito
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
21 March 2024
Pages
464
ISBN
9781787705463

The House on Via Gemito

Domenico Starnone, Oonagh Stransky (trans.)

Winner of the Strega Prize

Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024

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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