Domenico Starnone

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...

From the author of the International Booker Longlisted and winner of the Strega Prize The House on Via Gemito A Financial Times Book of the Week What is most thrilling about Trust is its overwhelming sense of unease... the selves we 'make' for ourselves and others may be the most dangerous of the stories we tell. - Times Literary Supplement...

Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024 "Starnone uses language 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...

From the author of the International Booker longlisted and winner of the Strega Prize The House on Via Gemito "Starnone uses languages the way a great painter works with colour, conjuring the illusion of three dimensions from a blank flat surface." – Jhumpa Lahiri "Compelling... One of Italy's most accomplished novelists." – The Guardian Trick is a chillingly weird chamber...

Starnone uses languages the way a great painter works with colour. - Jhumpa Lahiri One of Italy's most accomplished novelists. - The Guardian Imagine a child, a daydreamer, always gazing out of the window. His grandmother, busy in the kitchen, keeps an eye on him. The child stares at a balcony on the opposite building, watching the black-haired girl as...

Pietro and Teresa's love affair is tempestuous and passionate. After yet another terrible argument, she gets an idea: they should tell each other something they've never told another person, something they're too ashamed to tell anyone. In this way, Teresa thinks, they will remain intimately connected forever. A few days after sharing their shameful secrets, they break up. Not long...