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DescriptionGiuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, the author of one of the most poignant and enduringly popular novels of the twentieth century, left only a few other pieces of fiction when he died prematurely at the age of sixty. Childhood Memories and Other Stories, here presented in a new translation by Stephen Parkin and including previously deleted passages and the unpublished fragment 'Torretta', collects all of Lampedusa's extant shorter fiction and provides a revealing glimpse into the writer's workshop and the background to the composition of his masterpiece. Reviews'Lampedusa's descriptions are jewel-like - and the pages of extraordinary family photographs add another layer of haunting nostalgia to this twilight of Italy's ancient aristocracy. Beautiful.' The Times 'Lampedusa wrote two masterpieces and this, as bizarre as it sounds, is the other one.' The Telegraph 'Handsome book... Parkin's translation does justice to Lampedusa's elegant, elaborate prose - The prose flows with the allegro and cadences of a Mozart piano composition.' TLS Author descriptionGiuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Duke of Palma and Prince of Lampedusa, was born in Palermo in 1896. Other than three articles that appeared in an obscure Italian journal in 1926 - 27, Lampedusa was unpublished in his own lifetime. He began The Leopard, his only novel, in 1954, at the age of fifty-eight. When he died aged sixty-one, the completed manuscript of The Leopard had received only rejections from publishers. |