Domenico Starnone

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• Scherzetto

  In English

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  National Book Award 2018 · Finalist

  Trick

  Scherzetto

  Domenico Starnone · 73 when first published

  Novel · 192 pages · Family

  Translated by Jhumpa Lahiri

  AIAI-generated summary:An elderly illustrator who settled in Milan long ago goes back to Naples to look after his small grandson, almost a stranger to him, for three days while the boy's parents are away.

• Via Gemito

  In English

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  Strega 2001 · ★ Winner

  The House on Via Gemito

  Via Gemito

  Domenico Starnone · 57 when first published

  Novel · 480 pages · Family, Autofiction

  AIAI-generated summary:In Naples, a railway clerk convinced he is destined to be a great painter rages against his job, his city and above all his wife. Decades later his eldest son tells the story of this overbearing, fabulating father.