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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 a

The House on Via Gemito

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LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2024Starnone uses languages the way a great painter works with colour, conjuring the illusion... Read more

    Publisher: Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
    Publication Date: 3/21/2024
    ISBN13: 9781787705463, 978-1787705463
    ISBN10: 1787705463

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

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    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 a

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