A new novel from Pushkin Press is always welcome and How I Lost The War proved to be as expected, a witty but thought-provoking read with bags of Italian flavour to transport readers into fragrant Tuscan summers – but this is no rural idyll, for it is about to be transformed by powerful forces of [...]
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Every so often one comes across a book which makes you feel that you should have known about this years ago, that one’s literary education was incomplete before you read it. Lampedusa’s The Leopard is one of these. I suppose its relative obscurity is because, a. Lampedusa only wrote this one novel, and b. it [...] |
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