Leopard: Discover the breath-taking historical classic Revised edition [Pehme köide]

There is a great feeling of opulence, decay, love and death about it Every once in a while, like certain golden moments of happiness, infinitely memorable, one stumbles on a book or a writer, and the impact is like an indelible mark. Lampedusa's The Leopard, his only novel, and a masterpiece, is such a work * Independent * Perhaps the greatest novel of the century One of the great lonely books...not a historical novel, but a novel which happens to take place in history The poetry of Lampedusa's novel flows into the Sicilian countryside...a work of great artistry I was astounded by the power of the writing A great book * Observer * Few novels in the last ten years have given me so much enjoyment * Sunday Times * A novel of exceptional stature. One may claim for it classic status A literary phenomenon on the grandest scale a work of genius