Author Description

New Macmillan,, (1964). Near fine in very good dust jacket (2 short closed tears to the upper edge of the dj, some toning, original price of $5.95 still present on dj flap). Early printing. An epic novel by this Rumanian author (who escaped from that country in 1960) A book which "begins with a prewar summer's idyll on the Danube, and then moves into all the cruelty and horror of World War II and the vicious statism of postwar Communist Rumania." Translated from the author's French version by Norman Denny. 471 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon.