Name: The Duke by Melchiorre, Matteo
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The Duke by Melchiorre, Matteo

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Author: Melchiorre, Matteo

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 4 November 2025 by Foundry Editions in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 468 pages
132 x 197 x 38 | 440g

Longlisted for the 2026 International Booker PrizeOutside Vallorgana, a tiny, isolated village high in the foothills of the Dolomites, the Duke’ lives in the villa of his aristocratic ancestors. The last in the centuries’ old line of the Cimamontes, he spends his days on his land and absorbed in the family archive, tolerated, if gently ridiculed by the villagers who are his neighbours. When he finds out that the village big man is taking timber from his land, he has a decision to make. Will he stay in his glorious, cerebral isolation or will he honour his ancestral blood and take action against this affront?Matteo Melchiorre’s portrait of the idiosyncratic character of the Duke and the world of Valorgana is a sweeping f

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