Description

Hardcover, black boards lettered in gold on spine, in publisher’s dust-jacket. 300 pages. Translated by Anthea Bell. Illustrated with evocative black and white vignette photographs throughout. Presumed book club issue, as there is no price on dust-jacket, which remains unclipped. Copyright page has stated first edition, first printing [using Random House method of having number line start with “2”. In later printings the words first edition were dropped]. First published in 2001, this haunting novel won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2019. Previous owner’s name inside front cover. Very good in a very good dust-jacket.