{"product_id":"9781787705463","title":"The House on Via Gemito : Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024","description":"\u003cp\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2024\"Starnone uses languages 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 is pushed up against the wall to create a make-shift studio, and drying canvases must be moved off the beds each night.   Feder�, 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.�Years later, his first-born son will tell the story of a man he spent his whole life trying not to resemble.�Narrated against the background of a Naples still marked by WWII and first published in Italy over 20 years ago, The House on Via Gemito is a masterpiece of contemporary Italian literature.�\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45469917577437,"sku":"9781787705463","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/files\/9781787705463.jpg?v=1720177298","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9781787705463","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}