THE SERMON ON THE FALL OF ROME

“This is yet another of those European novels of ideas that reduce most current English-language fiction to pedestrian predictability by comparison . . . Ferrari pursues his story with the delicacy and skill of a musician reaching the final note.”

EILEEN BATTERSBY, Irish Times

“More admirable even than his previous works . . . The best novel of the year.”

RAPHAËLLE LEYRIS, Le Monde

“Focusing on Corsica, but taking in Paris, Algeria and French colonies in Africa, its portrayal of the many accommodations we make with ‘circumstance’ is both humorous and poignant.”

CATRIONA GRAHAM, Guardian Readers’ Choice

“Ferrari writes with power and perceptive humor.”

DAVID PLATZER, Tablet

“A beautiful meditation on the end of a world . . . as universal as a Greek tragedy.”

ASTRID DE LARMINAT, Figaro

“It rewards effort . . . No conclusions are reached . . . This is as it should be. Good novels pose questions to which there may be no satisfying answer.”

ALLAN MASSIE, Scotsman

“Overflowing with eroticism, sensuality, violence and blinding flashes of wisdom.”

CLAIRE DEVARIEUX, Libération