About the book: 1997 / "The Lion" - a romantic story about a girl and an African lion - a bestseller of modern French literature, which had a sensational circulation of 1 million copies for France. The novel “Lisbon Lovers” belongs to the pen of the brilliant 20th century novelist, member of the French Academy Joseph Kessel. “What love does to people…” Only circumstances incompatible with the usual course of human affairs - even if in themselves they are bitter and terrible - give happiness the special poignancy that the love of J. Kessel’s heroes acquired.