Lampedusa

<p><b>‘So vivid and true . . . <i>Lampedusa</i> is a beautiful novel, lyrical and wise. Reading it made me feel both melancholy and uplifted.’ David Gilmour, <i>Financial Times </i></b><br><br><b>‘Brimming with wise and lyrical insights that make it a worthy heir to its mighty predecessor.’ <i>New York Times</i></b> <br><br>In the Sicily of the 1950s, still haunted by memories of Fascism and the war, the last Prince of Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi, struggles to complete his only novel, <i>The Leopard</i>. <br><br>Tomasi is a veteran of the previous war, while his wife Alessandra is living in exile after her native Latvia is absorbed into the Soviet Union. The childless couple are survivors of a vanishing world of European aristocracy, living in the present, yet nostalgic for the decadent past. Diagnosed with advanced emphysema and with a profound aware