Across

London: Methuen, 1986.

First UK Edition. Slim 8vo. pp 138. Pale blue paper-covered boards with black cloth spine. With the excellent and unclipped dust-jacket. No old inscriptions. A near fine copy. 'Across' was originally published in German in 1983 under the title 'Der Chinese des Schmerzes'. The Austrian author was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2019 "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience."