{"product_id":"the-house-on-via-gemito-by-domenico-starnone-9781787705463","title":"The House on Via Gemito","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLonglisted for the International Booker Prize 2024\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Starnone uses language the way a great painter works with colour, conjuring the illusion of three dimensions from a blank flat surface.\"\u003c\/em\u003e - Jhumpa Lahiri\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"One of Italy's most accomplished novelists.\"\u003c\/em\u003e - The Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Masterly.\"\u003c\/em\u003e - Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFederi, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYears later, his first-born son will tell the story of a man he spent his whole life trying not to resemble.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNarrated against the background of a Naples still marked by WWII and first published in Italy over 20 years ago, \u003cem\u003eThe House on Via Gemito\u003c\/em\u003e is a masterpiece of contemporary Italian literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47464357331180,"sku":"9781787705463","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781787705463-the-house-on-via-gemito.jpg?v=1775048102","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-house-on-via-gemito-by-domenico-starnone-9781787705463","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}