Author: Prieto, Jose' Manuel
Title: Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire; Translated from the Spanish by Carol and Thomas Christensen
Description: New York, Grove Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; x, 322; black cloth and purple paper covered boards, lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket. "Combining the intellectual sophistication and luminous prose of Nabokov with the world view of a scion of Castro's Cuba, Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire is a novel of immense power and originality from one of the most exciting new talents in Latin America. J. ('the most hilariously wounded and obsessive narrator since Pale Fire's Charles Kinbote'-Francisco Goldman) lives on the fringes of Eastern Europe, a smuggler fencing the flotsam of communism's collapse. Very good/very good.
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Title: Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire; Translated from the Spanish by Carol and Thomas Christensen
Description: New York, Grove Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; x, 322; black cloth and purple paper covered boards, lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket. "Combining the intellectual sophistication and luminous prose of Nabokov with the world view of a scion of Castro's Cuba, Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire is a novel of immense power and originality from one of the most exciting new talents in Latin America. J. ('the most hilariously wounded and obsessive narrator since Pale Fire's Charles Kinbote'-Francisco Goldman) lives on the fringes of Eastern Europe, a smuggler fencing the flotsam of communism's collapse. Very good/very good.
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Price: US$ 10.00 Seller: Austin's Antiquarian Books
- Book number: 17863
- Book number: 17863
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