first edition Hardcover
1956 · London
by MEMMI, Albert
London: Elek Books, 1956. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First English edition. Tiny faint spot, and a little very light sunning to the boards, very good plus in about very good dustwrapper with a couple of small chips. Novel about a mixed blood Jew growing up in colonized Arab Tunisia (as did the author), by a North African author. The book was awarded the Priz Feneon. An overlooked classic, the novel was filmed in Israel in 1979 as *Natziv Hamelech.*. (Inventory #: 78449)