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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.
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.
"Wonderful as the passages about the writing of The Leopard are, the deeper story in Lampedusa is about a dying man reckoning with his life; an unsparing yet tender portrait that makes Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa as compelling as his great novel." -- The Washington Post