The Voices of the Dead

London: Peter Owen, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Translated by John M. Parker. Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped (£6.95), rubbed at the spine, black marks on the back panel. Black boards, rubbed at the bottom edge, with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The first of Dourado's work to be translated into English. A novel favorably compared to Faulkner's work, it tells the story of "characters dominated by conflicting forces from the past.