So much of the reading that I've been doing about southern Italy has pointed to The Leopard... so, a bit late in the day, I've finally got around to reading this classic novel by Tomasi di Lampedusa.
Ostensibly about one noble Sicilian family facing the reality of the upheaval surrounding the unification of Italy in 1861, it is actually a universal story of human beings, their relationships, their lives and their deaths.
It is also, above all, about Sicily... and about everything having to change in order for everything to remain the same...
The Leopard has been hailed as one of the greatest novels ever written – and I certainly wouldn't argue with that.
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