Childhood Memories and Other Stories: First English Translation

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Giuseppe 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Other Stories, here presented in a new translation by Stephen Parkin and including previously deleted passages and the unpublished fragment Torretta, collects all of Lampedusas extant shorter fiction and provides a revealing glimpse into the writers workshop and the background to the composition of his masterpiece.

From the atmospheric recollections of the Palazzo Lampedusa and the Palazzo Filangeri Cut at the turn of the twentieth century in Childhood Memories to the delightful fable The Siren, from the gently humorous, bittersweet tones of Joy and the Law to The Blind Kittens the first chapter of what was intended to be a sequel to The Leopard this volume showcases Lampedusas unparalleled observational powers and narrative skills.

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Lampedusa wrote two masterpieces and this, as bizarre as it sounds, is the other one. * The Telegraph *

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Duke of Palma and Prince of Lampedusa, was born in Palermo in 1896. Except for three articles that appeared in an Italian journal in 192627, Lampedusa was unpublished in his own lifetime.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, the completed manuscript of The Leopard had received only rejections from publishers.