«The Animal Gazer takes you on a glorious journey into the heart of cosmopolitan Paris as you have never known it before. Through the life of Rembrandt Bugatti, a sculptor with the panache of his name, this lively, fast-paced narrative evokes an exceptional epoch in all its color and eccentric charm»

Nicholas Fox Weber

«A curious book, part biography, part novel... Michael F. Moore's ripple translation from the Italian conveys the odd blend of detachment and detail... Bugatti's sculptures, his deer, flamingoes and giraffes, stalk across the first page of every chapter, and the man himself is brought back, some wise, to life'»

TLS

«Rembrandt Bugatti was an extraordinary artist and a breed apart; this moody and atmospheric book captures the obsessive nature of one of the best of a fascinating group of 19th- and early 20th-century animal sculptors»

Ian Wardropper, director, The Frick Collection

«Sparkling... The tone is mellifluous throughout... Multi-award-winning Italian author Franzosini's English-language debut is an irresistible, elegantly conceived example of biographical fiction'»

Library Journal

«Edgardo Franzosini is among the finest contemporary Italian writers... Franzosini illuminates the life of this singular artist... An artist capable of sculpting in bronze the movements of animals and grasping their vitality in such a way that critics, after years of neglect, are discovering its unique power'»

Il Giornale