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Lampedusa

By: Steven Price
Narrated by: Jonathan Aris
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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, last prince of Lampedusa, as he struggles to complete his only novel, The Leopard.

In 1955, Giuseppe 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.

Adhering intensely to the facts of Lampedusa’s life, but moving deep into the mind of the author, Lampedusa inhabits the complicated interior of a man facing down the end of his life, struggling to make something of lasting worth, while there is still time.

©2019 Steven Price (P)2019 Macmillan Publishers International Ltd Biographical Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction World Literature Italy Biography

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Very enjoyable and well read - some memorable lines and strong characters - would make a good film! Recommended

Evocative of a bygone era

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