NY: Random House, 1983. First edition. 154pp. Black boards backed with green cloth; dust jacket. Light shelfwear/offsetting to board edges; adhesive-related offsetting to endpapers. Near fine in an unclipped jacket, lightly toned to flaps.
First American edition of this early novel by Portuguese writer Antonio Lobo Antunes (1942-2026); a formally inventive work about a Portuguese medic's traumatic experiences as part of the Angolan liberation movement. Translated from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Lowe.
