The Exile of Capri is a 1959 novel by French writer Roger Peyrefitte, based on the lives of Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen and Nino Cesarini.[1]
Author | Roger Peyrefitte |
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Original title | L'Exilé de Capri |
Translator | Edward Hyams |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Publisher | Groupe Flammarion |
Publication date | 1959 |
Published in English | 1961 |
Media type | |
Pages | 284 |
ISBN | 978-0436369025 |
The book starts with a handsome Frenchman in his early 30s meeting a beautiful young seventeen-year-old French boy on the crest of Vesuvius in 1897. They befriend at first sight, and each starts to suspect that they have something more in common than a love for climbing mountains. [2]