The House On Via Gemito

Domenico Starnone

£15.99

Narrated against the background of a Naples still marked by WWII and steeped in the city’s language and imagery, The House on Via Gemito – first published 20 years ago – is a masterpiece of contemporary Italian literature.

Hardback

Fiction > General

ISBN: 9781787704534

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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.

Federi, the father, a railway clerk, is convinced of possessing great artistic talent.

If he didn’t have a family 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.

His long-suffering wife and their four sons bear the brunt. 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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Weight 1 kg
Dimensions 25 × 17 × 8 cm