Lampedusa
Price, Steven, 1976-2020
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In 1943, an Allied bomb destroyed the Lampedusa palace in Palermo; in 1955, Giuseppe Tomasi is diagnosed with advanced emphysema. Shortly after, profoundly aware of his mortality, he begins work on a novel, imagining the life of his great-grandfather Don Giulio, astronomer prince and head of the family at the time of the Risorgimento. Giuseppe Tomasi is a veteran of the previous war, while his wife Alexandra - 'Licy' - a Baltic German aristocrat, now lives in exile, after her native Latvia was absorbed into the Soviet Union. The childless couple are survivors of a vanishing world of European aristocracy, living in the present yet profoundly aware of the past.
Main title:
Lampedusa / Steven Price.
Author:
Price, Steven, 1976-, author
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2020.
Collation:
325 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Originally published: Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2019.
ISBN:
9781529019636 (hbk)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
BRN:
2913562
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