The House on Via Gemito
Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024
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Book information
Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
UK
2024
Paperback
464
Heavy
316580
978-1-78770-546-3
1-78770-546-3
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Annotation
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.
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