House on Via Gemito - Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024
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| Verlag | Europa Editions |
| Auflage | 21.03.2024 |
| Seiten | 464 |
| Format | 12,9 x 2,1 x 19,2 cm |
| Gewicht | 409 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9781787705463 |
| Bestell-Nr | 78770546UA |
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.
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.
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.
