This is the story behind one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, both in terms of sales, literary influence and worldwide translations. Every reader who has been possessed by The Leopard, the unique work of Giuseppe Lampedusa, should progress to this book. This is a classic biography, by a writer of a writer, where princely decadence and aristocratic disdain masked a razor sharp mind, made doubly intriguing in that Lampedusa never lived to see the tearaway success of his masterly creation.
