The famous singer started out as a writer. One of his youthful novels had remained unpublished: here it is, terribly funny and cruel.
Leonard Cohen, in the absence of a Nobel, had had all of his literary work rewarded by the Prince of Asturias prize. Before him had crowned Mario Vargas Llosa, Günter Grass, Claudio Magris, Margaret Atwood, and subsequently Philip Roth. And here is an essential milestone in his “first life”, in the form of an unpublished novel, written at the age of 23-24, a precious testimony to his first steps in the world of fiction.