The House on Via Gemito
Read by
Paul Bellantoni
Release:
11/26/2024
Release:
11/26/2024
Release:
11/26/2024
Runtime:
18h 33m
Runtime:
18h 33m
Runtime:
18h 33m
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A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR —the Washington Post & Kirkus Reviews
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE
This extraordinary Strega Prize-winning novel confirms Domenico Starnone's reputation as one of Italy's greatest living writers. Told against the backdrop of Naples in the 1960s, a city that itself becomes a vivid character in this lush, atmospheric novel, The House on Via Gemito is a masterpiece of Italian fiction.
A modest apartment in Via Gemito smelling of paint and turpentine. Its furniture pushed up against the wall to create a studio. Drying canvases moved from bed to floor each night. Federí, the father, a railway clerk, is convinced that he possesses great artistic promise. If it weren't for the family he must feed and the jealousy of his fellow artists, nothing would stop him from becoming a famous painter. Ambitious and frustrated, talented but also arrogant and resentful, Federí is scarred by constant disappointment. He is a larger-than-life character, a liar, a fabulist, and his fantasies shape the lives of those around him, especially his son, Mimi, who will spend a lifetime trying to get out from under his father's shadow.
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR —the Washington Post & Kirkus Reviews
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE
This extraordinary Strega Prize-winning novel confirms Domenico Starnone's reputation as one of Italy's greatest living writers. Told against the backdrop of Naples in the 1960s, a city that itself becomes a vivid character in this lush, atmospheric novel, The House on Via Gemito is a masterpiece of Italian fiction.
A modest apartment in Via Gemito smelling of paint and turpentine. Its furniture pushed up against the wall to create a studio. Drying canvases moved from bed to floor each night. Federí, the father, a railway clerk, is convinced that he possesses great artistic promise. If it weren't for the family he must feed and the jealousy of his fellow artists, nothing would stop him from becoming a famous painter. Ambitious and frustrated, talented but also arrogant and resentful, Federí is scarred by constant disappointment. He is a larger-than-life character, a liar, a fabulist, and his fantasies shape the lives of those around him, especially his son, Mimi, who will spend a lifetime trying to get out from under his father's shadow.
Release:
2024-11-26
2024-11-26
2024-11-26
Runtime:
Runtime:
Runtime:
18h 33m
18h 33m
18h 33m
Format:
audio
audio
audio
Weight:
0.0 lb
1.35 lb
0.55 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9798855580068
9798228006379
9798228006386
Publisher:
Tantor
Tantor
Tantor
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