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Growing Up on Moan Street
The Naples of Domenico Starnone's novel The House on Via Gemito is a hot-breathed, dragonlike city that keeps its children bound even after they escape.
The House on Via Gemito
by Domenico Starnone, translated from the Italian by Oonagh Stransky
September 21, 2023 issue