Full name: Lampedusa: A Novel

Author: Steven Price Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780771071683 077107168X

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, Lampedusa is an intensely moving story of one man's awakening to the possibilities of life, intimately woven against the transformative power of a great work of art. Similar books: The Help by Kathryn Stockett A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini America's First Daughter by Stephanie Dray The Dutch House by Ann Patchett The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson The Sunne In Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger I Am Livia by Phyllis T. Smith The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni The Rent Collector by Camron Wright The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak Necessary Lies by Diane Chamberlain Commonwealth by Ann Patchett Underworld by Don DeLillo