Lampedusa

Listed in the Literature category on Art In Fiction, Lampedusa  (2019) by Steven Price was shortlisted for the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize.   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, The Leopard . With a firm devotion to the historical record, Lampedusa leaps effortlessly into the mind of the writer and inhabits the complicated heart of a man facing down the end of his life, struggling to make something of lasting worth, while there is still time.    Achingly beautiful and elegantly conceived, Steven Price's novel 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. " Lampedusa is 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. . . .  Lampedusa is a marvel, a strange, wonderful, and utterly unforgettable book." — Toronto Star Steven Price's first collection of poems,  Anatomy of Keys  (2006), won Canada's 2007 Gerald Lampert Award for Best First Collection, was short-listed for the BC Poetry Prize, and was named a  Globe and Mail  Book of the Year. His first novel,  Into That Darkness  (2011), was short-listed for the 2012 BC Fiction Prize. His second collection of poems,  Omens in the Year of the Ox  (2012), won the 2013 ReLit Award. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia, with his family.   Buy Now from Amazon Buy Now from Bookshop