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Lampedusa

Steven Price

2019272 pagesabout 4–6 hours
2019
first published
  • 2019Farrar, Straus & Giroux · ENGISBN 9780374720667
  • 2019Pan Macmillan · 272 pages · ENGISBN 9781529019643
  • 2019McClelland & Stewart · 336 pages · ENGISBN 9780771071683
  • 2020Pan Macmillan · 336 pages · ENGISBN 9781529019636
  • 2020Pan Macmillan · 336 pages · ENGISBN 9781529019650
  • 2020Picador · 336 pagesISBN 9781250757944
  • 2019Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 336 pages · ENGISBN 9780374212247

"Set in a sun-drenched Sicily, among the decadent Italian aristocracy of the late 1950s, Steven Price's Lampedusa explores the final years of Giuseppe Tomasi, the last prince of Lampedusa, as he struggles to complete his only novel, The Leopard. In 1955, Tomasi was diagnosed with advanced emphysema; shortly after, he began work on a novel that would fail to be published before his death four years later. When The Leopard at last appeared, it won Italy's Strega Prize and became the greatest Italian novel of the century" --

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