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In 1955, Giuseppe Tomasi, the last prince of Lampedusa, received a life-shattering diagnosis. Shortly after, he began work on a novel which would fail to be published before his death two years later. When The Leopard at last appeared, it won Italy's Strega Prize and earned recognition as one of the greatest novels of the century. Adhering closely to the facts of Tomasi's life while venturing deep into his psyche, this novel inhabits the complicated mind of a man facing his last days and struggling to leave behind something of lasting value while there is still time.