STARNONE DOMENICO – Globolibri.it https://www.globolibri.it Libreria Genova libri inglesi spagnoli francesi tedeschi cinesi giapponesi piccolo principe books Sun, 04 Jun 2023 07:43:11 +0000 it-IT hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://www.globolibri.it/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/cropped-LOGO-1-32x32.png STARNONE DOMENICO – Globolibri.it https://www.globolibri.it 32 32 The House on Via Gemito https://www.globolibri.it/negozio/libri-inglese/narrativa-in-inglese/the-house-on-via-gemito-9781787704534/ Sat, 03 Jun 2023 15:54:50 +0000 https://www.globolibri.it/?post_type=product&p=18541 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. 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.

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