num_pages: 277
description: Shortlisted for the 1988 Booker Prize and winner of the Macmillan Silver Pen Award, this novel tells the story of a family and is set in the south of the Italian peninsula, during the early part of this century. The author's other work includes "Monuments and Maidens" and "The Skating Party".
language: English
title: The Lost Father
titlecomplete: The Lost Father
genres: Fiction
ratings_count: 48
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best Book Overall
publisher: Picador