I haven't read
The Leopard, by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa, but it looks really interesting, and its Wikipedia entry indicates that it won Italy's Strega prize in 1959 and that the
Observer named it one of their 10 best historical novels back in 2012. Now an English translation is on sale at Kindle UK today for £0.99 as part of the Daily Deal. (And, in Kindle's often amusing but rarely appropriate genre-switching, it's ranked as the "#1 Best Seller in Cat, Dog & Animal Humour"...sigh!)
Kindle UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Leopard-Rev...dp/B0041RRH6S/
Kindle UK/Smile:
https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Leopard-R...dp/B0041RRH6S/
Spoiler:
Quote:
The Leopard is a modern classic which tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution.
'There is a great feeling of opulence, decay, love and death about it' Rick Stein
In the spring of 1860, Fabrizio, the charismatic Prince of Salina, still rules over thousands of acres and hundreds of people, including his own numerous family, in mingled splendour and squalor. Then comes Garibaldi's landing in Sicily and the Prince must decide whether to resist the forces of change or come to terms with them.
'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
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