Lampedusa / Steven Price.
Momo rauemi: TextKaiwhakaputa: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019Edition: First American editionWhakaahuatanga: 325 pages ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780374212247
- 9781529019643
- 0374212244
- 813/.6 23
- PR9199.4.P768 L36 2019
Momo tuemi | Tauwāhi onāianei | Kohinga | Tau karanga | Tūnga | Rā oti | Waeherepae | Ngā puringa tuemi | |
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Fiction | Ōpunakē LibraryPlus Fiction | Fiction | PRIC (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | Wātea | I2194298 |
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PRES Winchelsea / | PRES Love and other scores / | PRES Dead mountain / | PRIC Lampedusa / | PRIC An Amish Cookie Club Christmas / | PRIE The toll / | PROS The maid / |
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.
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