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- Author: Domenico Starnone
- Publisher: Europa Editions
- ISBN-10: 1609459237
- ISBN-13: 9781609459239
- Format: 15.5 x 22.6 x 3.8 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English
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WINNER OF THE STREGA PRIZE
Available in English for the first time, this extraordinary prize-winning novel confirms Domenico Starnone's reputation as one of Italy's greatest living writers. Starnone, a finalist for the National Book Award with Trick, and author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling Ties and Trust, goes beyond the slim, succinct novella-length works by which he is known by American readers to create a vast fresco of family, fatherhood, and modern Naples.
Narrated against the background of Naples, which itself becomes a living character in this lush, atmospheric novel, and steeped in the city's language and imagery, The House on Via Gemito is a masterpiece of contemporary Italian literature.
The modest apartment in Via Gemito smells of paint and white spirit. The living room furniture is pushed up against the wall to create a make-shift studio, and drying canvases must be moved off the beds each night. FederÃ, the father, a railway clerk, is convinced of possessing great artistic talent. If it weren't for the family he has to feed, he'd be a world-famous painter. Ambitious and frustrated, genuinely talented but full of arrogance and resentment, his life is marked by bitter disappointment.
It's his first-born who, years later, will sift the lies from the truth to tell the story of a man he spent his whole life trying not to resemble.
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- Author: Domenico Starnone
- Publisher: Europa Editions
- ISBN-10: 1609459237
- ISBN-13: 9781609459239
- Format: 15.5 x 22.6 x 3.8 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English English
WINNER OF THE STREGA PRIZE
Available in English for the first time, this extraordinary prize-winning novel confirms Domenico Starnone's reputation as one of Italy's greatest living writers. Starnone, a finalist for the National Book Award with Trick, and author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling Ties and Trust, goes beyond the slim, succinct novella-length works by which he is known by American readers to create a vast fresco of family, fatherhood, and modern Naples.
Narrated against the background of Naples, which itself becomes a living character in this lush, atmospheric novel, and steeped in the city's language and imagery, The House on Via Gemito is a masterpiece of contemporary Italian literature.
The modest apartment in Via Gemito smells of paint and white spirit. The living room furniture is pushed up against the wall to create a make-shift studio, and drying canvases must be moved off the beds each night. FederÃ, the father, a railway clerk, is convinced of possessing great artistic talent. If it weren't for the family he has to feed, he'd be a world-famous painter. Ambitious and frustrated, genuinely talented but full of arrogance and resentment, his life is marked by bitter disappointment.
It's his first-born who, years later, will sift the lies from the truth to tell the story of a man he spent his whole life trying not to resemble.
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