The House on Via Gemito

Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024

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<p><strong>LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2024</strong></p><p><strong>"Starnone uses languages the way a great painter works with colour, conjuring the illusion of three dimensions from a blank flat surface." -Jhumpa Lahiri </strong></p><p><strong>"One of Italy's most accomplished novelists." -<em>The Guardian </em></strong></p><p><strong>"Masterly." -<em>Times Literary Supplement </em></strong></p><p>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.</p><p>Federì, 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.</p><p>Years later, his first-born son will tell the story of a man he spent his whole life trying not to resemble.</p><p>Narrated against the background of a Naples still marked by WWII and first published in Italy over 20 years ago, <em>The House on Via Gemito</em> is a masterpiece of contemporary Italian literature.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781787705463

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

196 x 128 x 36 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Verlag / Hersteller

Europa Editions (UK) Ltd