LAMPEDUSA
Shortlisted for the Giller PrizeIn the Sicily of the 1950s, still haunted by memories of Fascism and the war, the last prince of Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi, struggles to complete his only novel, The Leopard.Tomasi is a veteran of the previous war, while his wife Alessandra is living in exile after her native Latvia is absorbed into the Soviet Union. The childless couple are survivors of a vanishing world of European aristocracy, living in the present, yet nostalgic for the decadent past. Tomasi is diagnosed with advanced emphysema in 1955 and with a profound awareness of his doomed lineage, he begins working on a novel. When The Leopard is po…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5290-1965-0
- EAN: 9781529019650
- Produktnummer: 33705033
- Verlag: Pan Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Masse: H13.0 cm x B19.7 cm x D2.3 cm 240 g
- Gewicht: 240
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Steven Price's previous novel, By Gaslight, was shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger, longlisted for the Giller Prize, and named a Book of the Year by NPR, CBC, and the Toronto Globe and Mail. He is the award-winning author of one other novel, Into that Darkness, and two collections of poetry. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia, with his family.
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