24 Best contemporary books like The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone

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Similar categories in Anna Maria Ortese's Il mare non bagna Napoli book and Domenico Starnone's The House on Via Gemito

Similar categories in Elena Ferrante's The Lost Daughter book and Domenico Starnone's The House on Via Gemito

Similar categories in Mathias Énard's The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild book and Domenico Starnone's The House on Via Gemito

• literature
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

Similar categories in Itamar Vieira Junior's Torto Arado book and Domenico Starnone's The House on Via Gemito

• literary fiction
• literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• historical fiction

"Olha, dona"

-Itamar Vieira Junior, Torto Arado

"Durante algum tempo, pensei que pudesse haver uma ruptura entre nossas famílias, mas o perdão aflorava da bênção que poderia ser o retorno de alguém de qual somos parte."

-Itamar Vieira Junior, Torto Arado

"Você incutiu naquelas vidas um respeito grande por suas próprias histórias. Mas agora nem você conseguia mais se iluminar com a esperança de que a mudança fosse possível, muito menos acreditava que a…"

-Itamar Vieira Junior, Torto Arado

Similar categories in Veronica Raimo's Niente di vero book and Domenico Starnone's The House on Via Gemito

• italy
• italian literature
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

"Quando finalmente arrivò la scoperta dei libri, non fu una forma di evasione, piuttosto una rasserenante coalescenza di noia. Riuscivo quasi a visualizzarla, bianca e melmosa: leggere era come sprofo…"

-Veronica Raimo, Niente di vero

Similar categories in Anne Enright's The Wren, the Wren book and Domenico Starnone's The House on Via Gemito

• literary fiction
• family
• fiction
• contemporary

"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

Similar categories in Jenny Erpenbeck's Kairos book and Domenico Starnone's The House on Via Gemito

• literary fiction
• literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• historical fiction

"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

Similar categories in Jennifer Croft's The Extinction of Irena Rey book and Domenico Starnone's The House on Via Gemito

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

"The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves."

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"Glittering crystalline rainbows extended in every direction, while gentle gold beams swept between the softened trees that sparkled and beckoned and forbade."

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex walls into quicksilver that momentarily held the frenzied shadow…"

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"It was barely spring in the southern hemisphere, and Buenos Aires was not yet soft, or sumptuous, or purple.* *I wasn't sure what this meant at first, but when I asked this author to explain it, she …"

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

Similar categories in Isabella Hammad's Enter Ghost book and Domenico Starnone's The House on Via Gemito

• literary fiction
• family
• contemporary
• fiction
• historical fiction

Similar categories in Colin Barrett's Wild Houses book and Domenico Starnone's The House on Via Gemito

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

Similar categories in Claire Kilroy's Soldier Sailor book and Domenico Starnone's The House on Via Gemito

• literary fiction
• family
• fiction
• contemporary

"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

Similar categories in Ia Genberg's The Details book and Domenico Starnone's The House on Via Gemito

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

"La fiducia resta lettera morta, se non la si sente nelle ossa."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"L'io , o meglio, il cosidetto "io", non è altro che questo: ciò che resta delle persone a cui ci siamo stretti."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"La vita mi ha regalato la mia buona dose di magia, e il più delle volte è successo all'incontro con gli altri. Lì c'è qualcosa. Lì, soltanto lì."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"Per i morti la successione del tempo non ha importanza, l'unica cosa che conta sono i dettagli, la densità, il come e il cosa e tutto ciò che riguarda il chi."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

Similar categories in Andrey Kurkov's The Silver Bone (The Kyiv Mysteries, #1) book and Domenico Starnone's The House on Via Gemito

• fiction
• historical fiction

Similar categories in Selva Almada's No es un río book and Domenico Starnone's The House on Via Gemito

• literature
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

Similar categories in Rita Bullwinkel's Headshot book and Domenico Starnone's The House on Via Gemito

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

Similar categories in Rachel Cusk's Parade book and Domenico Starnone's The House on Via Gemito

• art
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

Similar categories in Rodrigo Blanco Calderón's Simpatía book and Domenico Starnone's The House on Via Gemito

• literature
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

Similar categories in Sarah Perry's Enlightenment book and Domenico Starnone's The House on Via Gemito

• contemporary
• literary fiction
• fiction
• historical fiction

"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

Similar categories in Gabriela Wiener's Huaco retrato book and Domenico Starnone's The House on Via Gemito

• literary fiction
• contemporary

Similar categories in Claire Messud's This Strange Eventful History book and Domenico Starnone's The House on Via Gemito

• literary fiction
• family
• fiction
• historical fiction

"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

Similar categories in Samantha Harvey's Orbital book and Domenico Starnone's The House on Via Gemito

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

Similar categories in Domenico Starnone's The House on Via Gemito book and Domenico Starnone's The House on Via Gemito

• italy
• art
• literary fiction
• unfinished
• literature
• fiction
• italian literature
• contemporary
• historical fiction
• family

Similar categories in Hwang Sok-yong's Mater 2-10 book and Domenico Starnone's The House on Via Gemito

• literary fiction
• literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• family
• historical fiction

Similar categories in Ismail Kadare's A Dictator Calls book and Domenico Starnone's The House on Via Gemito

• literature
• literary fiction
• fiction
• historical fiction

"And a cursory glance at Karl Marx shows that a man who had dedicated his life to the violent overthrow of the world order never devoted half a page in any of his dozens of books to the trauma and rem…"

-Ismail Kadare, A Dictator Calls

Similar categories in Hisham Matar's My Friends book and Domenico Starnone's The House on Via Gemito

• literary fiction
• literature
• fiction
• contemporary
• historical fiction

"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

Similar categories in Urszula Honek's Białe noce book and Domenico Starnone's The House on Via Gemito

• literature
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

Similar categories in Alexis Wright's Praiseworthy book and Domenico Starnone's The House on Via Gemito

• literature
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

Similar categories in Jente Posthuma's What I'd Rather Not Think About book and Domenico Starnone's The House on Via Gemito

• literary fiction
• literature
• family
• fiction
• contemporary

"Cracks in the ground aren't always visible to the naked eye. Every movement has the potential to take you down."

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

"This was shocking to me, because if the oldest person I knew understood even less about the world than I did, then how was it possible that other adults had all the answers? And what was the point of…"

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

"To be a natural presence, you shouldn't take up too much space, which I always found easy at the beginning of a friendship. It felt nice to reshape myself into precisely the right format until the mo…"

-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About

Similar categories in Yael van der Wouden's The Safekeep book and Domenico Starnone's The House on Via Gemito

• literary fiction
• fiction
• historical fiction

Similar categories in Anne Michaels's Held book and Domenico Starnone's The House on Via Gemito

• literature
• literary fiction
• fiction
• historical fiction

"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

Similar categories in Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake book and Domenico Starnone's The House on Via Gemito

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary

"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake