“He no longer felt anything. He no longer had the will to think, or even to hold his head up straight. He was ready to accept whatever came without protest. His only conscious awareness was of being unbelievably old. The knowledge that he was only nine seemed an absurdity.”
Michel del Castillo, through the eyes of Tanguy, a child, delivers a tale of bewildered, uprooted fugitives, torn apart by forces they cannot comprehend, their map of Europe bounded by barbed wire and political hatred.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. First American edition, first printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 281 pages. Dust jacket in good condition with toning, chipping and edge wear—in protector. Boards and spine clean with slight fading but minimal wear, some crushing at spine ends. Binding solid and square. Pages tanned. Wonderful copy.
