Lampedusa - Steven Price
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: Jonathan Aris
Tags: General Fiction, Novel, Historical Fiction, Adults
Shortlisted for the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize, From the number-one nationally best-selling author of By Gaslight, a novel of exquisite emotional force about love and art in the life of one of the great writers, reminiscent of Colm Tibns The Master, or Michael Cunninghams The Hours., In sun-drenched Sicily, among the decadent Italian aristocracy of the late 1950s, Giuseppe Tomasi, the last prince of Lampedusa, struggles to complete the novel that will be his lasting legacy, The Leopard. With a firm devotion to the historical record, Lampedusa leaps effortlessly into the mind of the writer and inhabits the complicated heart of a man facing down the end of his life, struggling to make something of lasting worth, while there is still time., Achingly beautiful and elegantly conceived, Steven Prices new novel is an intensely moving story of one mans awakening to the possibilities of life, intimately woven against the transformative power of a great work of art.
