Places of My Infancy (New Directions Pearls) - Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa - Books - New Directions - 9780811220385 - November 27, 2012
In case cover and title do not match, the title is correct

Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
Places of My Infancy (New Directions Pearls) Reprint edition

Get an email once the item is available
Do you have a profile? Log in
Get notified about new Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa releases

Our customers say:

14-day return policy in accordance with European consumer protection law
Top ranking on Trustpilot
Add to your iMusic wish list

Not rated yet

From the author of the classic The Leopard, an intimate look at an Italian childhood.

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa?s brief but brilliant writing career lasted a mere two years before he succumbed to lung cancer. In that time he produced one novel (The Leopard), three stories, and the beginning of a memoir, Places of my Infancy ? a ?tour? of Lampedusa?s family estates in Sicily at the turn of 20thcentury. ?For me childhood was a lost paradise,? writes Lampedusa. ?I was king of the home.? Lampedusa gives lush, intimate descriptions of the estates in town and country: the home with its one hundred rooms, its garden with fountains full of eels, its church, its theater where wandering ?country? theater groups would perform, the maids and the groundskeepers, and Lampedusa?s own family members. Each detail ? from his mother?s silver comb to his father?s camera (owned ?in 1900!?) unlocks a memory of some event from the era.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released November 27, 2012
ISBN13 9780811220385
Publishers New Directions
Pages 76
Dimensions 137 × 203 × 13 mm   ·   136 g
Language English  
Contributor Archibald Colquhoun

More by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

Show all

More from the same publisher

See all of Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa ( e.g. Paperback Book , Hardcover Book , Book , Sewn Spine Book and MISC )