by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa, Maria Jorge Vilar de Figueiredo · Tapa dura · ISBN 9789726116578
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«O Leopardo» is the historical novel by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa, published by Publicações Dom Quixote in Portuguese (224 pages).
The novel portrays a decadent aristocracy witnessing the end of its world in the face of Italian unification: between 1860 and 1910, its characters experience the loss of privileges and the passage of time with disillusionment, scepticism and melancholy, in a chronicle that poetically reflects the fragility of the human condition.
Novel originally published as «Il Gattopardo» in 1958, winner of the Strega Prize in 1959. Translation into Portuguese by Maria Jorge Vilar de Figueiredo.
For readers of classics and historical fiction, with a regular presence in book clubs for its political and social background.
Giuseppe Tomasi, 11th Prince of Lampedusa, 12th Duke of Palma, GE, known as Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, was a Sicilian writer, as well as the last generation of Tomasi Princes of Lampedusa before the family's and their titles' extinction.
