by Domenico Starnone · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9788807015762
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«Via Gemito» is the novel by Domenico Starnone, published by Feltrinelli in paperback (389 pages, in Italian).
Federì is a railroad worker convinced that, without his family, he would have been a great painter; he vents his frustration and resentment on his wife and children. Federì's eldest son recounts living with that verbose and violent father and paints a bitter portrait of everyday life in Naples.
Via Gemito won the Strega Prize and the Napoli Prize in 2001. The novel, originally published in 2000, was nominated for the International Booker Prize in 2024.
For readers of contemporary Italian fiction and family-set novels with complex characters.
Domenico Starnone is an Italian writer, screenwriter, and journalist.
