{"product_id":"the-house-on-via-gemito","title":"The House on Via Gemito","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe modest apartment in Via Gemito smells of paint and white spirit.The living room furniture is pushed up against the wall to create a make-shift studio, and drying canvases must be moved off the beds each night.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFederi, the father, a railway clerk, is convinced of possessing great artistic talent. If he didn't have a family to feed, he'd be a world-famous painter. Ambitious and frustrated, genuinely talented but full of arrogance and resentment, his life is marked by bitter disappointment.His long-suffering wife and their four sons bear the brunt.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nIt's his first-born who, years later, will sift the lies from the truth to tell the story of a man he spent his whole life trying not to resemble.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNarrated against the background of a Naples still marked by WWII and steeped in the city's language and imagery, The House on Via Gemito - first published 20 years ago - is a masterpiece of contemporary Italian literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePages: 480\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eImprint: Europa Editions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSupplier: PRH Distribution\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSubjects: Code FA (scheme 12), family;parenthood;masculinity;Naples;post-war;historical fiction;Italy;art;fatherhood;contemporary;painter;artist;relationship, Code FBA (scheme 93)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Europa Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49103491367161,"sku":"9781787704534","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.atticusbooksandart.com.au\/products\/the-house-on-via-gemito","provider":"Atticus Bookshop Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}