1972-2007 Modern Literature on Home: A Personal Selection

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First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

The first editions of eight novels of modern literature, a personal selection that touch on themes of home and alienation. Novels include those written by award-winning authors Günter Grass, Alaa Al Aswany, Roddy Doyle and 1983 Nobel Prize winner William Golding.

In the publisher's original cloth, in the original unclipped dust wrappers. All dust wrappers are unclipped except Golding's The Paper Men.

Titles include:

The Sin Eater, by Alice Thomas Ellis (1977, Duckworth).
Foreign Land, by Jonathan Rabin (1985, Collins Harvill).
The Yacoubian Building, by Alaa Al Aswany, an international bestseller (2007, Fourth Estate).
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors, by Roddy Doyle (1996, Jonathan Cape).
Kate's House, by Harriet Waugh (1983, Weidenfeld and Nicolson).
The Paper Men, by William Golding (1984, Faber and Faber).
Two Years in My Afternoon, by Elizabeth Ayrton (1972, Secker and Warburg).
The Call of the Toad, by Gunter Grass (1992, Secker and Warburg).