Dara Hardcover - 1987

* DARA - - Patrick Besson Nicole Irving -Translator First American Edition translated - French by Nicole Irving. Cloth dark blue wrap spine -gold / blue titling -blue boards small amount of rust checking on top of page endpapers papers blue to match the boards- Interior book is clean unmarked on Beige buff colored paper-small amount of minutiae on its edges, -author photo Joel Arthur photo Joel Lumien- jacket design Graham Rawle printed USA Moffa Press Inc dust jacket just good has some aging on its edges not perfect book good nice copy- 6th printing originally published France then Great Britain then U.S.- Franklin Watts New York - Dara is a Yugoslavian refugee who works as a seamstress in Paris but whose past no one seems to comprehend completely.-a novel about nationalities. Coming from - family of Croatian collaborators involved with circle of anti-collaborationist Serbian royalists, uninterested in politics,nourishes a peculiarly personal hatred for Tito & his Communists. The poignancy and comedy of this tangle fuel- interest Dara, unique.One small obstacle to belief-- people who knew Dara - recount the details of her sex life to her inquiring daughter!--absorbing, suspenseful novel.-Spanning years wartime to the 1950s- 1960s-Dara- only Besson work - translated into English, in 1987, by Nicole Irving, for Franklin Watts -Publisher. Communist at birth, polemicist by practice, prodigy by talent,enfant terrible by trade,Besson published more than 50 books—novels, story collections,nonfiction.Winner of the Grand Prix du Roman - Academie Francaise for 1985. - Pub- Franklin Watts-New York- First Edition 1987 -author photo- Joel Lumien- jacket design Graham Rawle -printed USA Moffa Press Inc- hardcover DJ good sixth printing- ISBN- 0531150569 -978-0531150566 ASIN: B001KW8AJ0-Lccn-87-50420 SIZE 9 x 6 x 0.9 in. - LAXVespa Los Angeles /Culver City-- -Expedited Shipping available-by request/ price adjust-..Ruth Reaser..LAX Vespa shipped -United States Post to fulfill your order from Los Angeles I hop on my Vespa visit the PO to have it placed in our mail system.. your books not co-mingled its wrapped --you get the copy you were viewing. Carefully packed...Gift just let me know. - Dara 4158 OLD BOOK 37 BLK