Lampedusa

"One of the most powerful depictions of the creative act, and its roots in the wounds of the soul, that a reader is likely to encounter . . . a marvel." —Toronto Star

Like Colm Tóibín's The Master or Michael Cunningham's The Hours, a novel about art and writing in the life of one of the greats.

Set in a sun-drenched Sicily, among the decadent Italian aristocracy of the late 1950s, Steven Price's Lampedusa explores the final years of Giuseppe Tomasi, the last prince of Lampedusa, as he stru...