First UK edition. Peter Owen Publishers, London, 1994. Green cloth boards with silver lettering to spine. Fine. In near fine dust jacket, lightly rubbed at edges. Translated by Ruth Levitt. Marga Minco’s first collection of stories, originally published in Dutch as De andere kant in 1959. Dust jacket and endpaper illustrations by Alexei Pakhomov.
Minco uses her unique voice to explore the fragility of existence and the enduring shadows of history. It offers a powerful and unsentimental look at the human condition in the wake of unimaginable tragedy.
