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Like Colm TΓ³ibΓnβsThe Masteror Michael CunninghamβsThe Hours**, a novel about art and writing in the life of one of the greats**
Set in a sun-drenched Sicily, among the decadent Italian aristocracy of the late 1950s, Steven PriceβsLampedusaexplores 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. WhenThe Leopardat last appeared, it won Italyβs Strega Prize and became the greatest Italian novel of the century.
Adhering intensely to the facts of Tomasiβs life but moving deep into the mind of the author,Lampedusainhabits the complicated interior of a man facing down the end of his life and struggling to make something of lasting worth while there is still time.
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