£95
FIRST BRITISH EDITION, 8vo, pp. xxiii, [iii], 335, [3]. Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt, colour-printed dustjacket. A fine copy. Review copy slip, folded press release and page torn from publisher’s catalogue loosely inserted.
The first British publication of Nobel prizewinner Asturias' 1949 novel, a magic realist Guatemalan tale described in a 2024 article in The Paris Review as 'Miguel Ángel Asturias's Mayan masterpiece, his Indigenous Ulysses, a deep dive into the forces that made and kept the Maya a subservient caste, and the perpetual resistance that kept Guatemala's many Mayan cultures alive and resilient.' It was reissued in 2025 as a Penguin Classic.
