Via Gemito

Domenico Starnone · 2000 CE · Novel · Italian · Contemporary

A grown son recalls his father, a Naples railway worker and frustrated painter whose violence and self-pity filled the family flat on Via Gemito in the postwar years. The book is Starnone's most autobiographical and won the Strega, placing him in the line of Neapolitan family fiction.

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