In the Sicily of the 1950s, still haunted by memories of Fascism and the war, Giuseppe Tomasi, the last Prince of Lampedusa, struggles to complete the novel that will be his lasting legacy, The Leopard. 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 Lampedusa - Steven Price od authora Steven Price a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
Autor |
Steven Price |
Jazyk |
anglický |
Počet stran |
336 |
Rok vydání |
2019 |
Nakladatelství |
Picador |