LEROUX, Etienne. Seven Days at the Silbersteins
LEROUX, Etienne. Seven Days at the Silbersteins. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1967. First US edition, first printing. The Afrikaans writer’s fourth novel, and one which ignited a heated debate when it won South Africa’s highest literary award, The Hertzog Prize. It follows one innocent man’s trip to a farm as a series of bizarre and often ritualistic practices are performed on him. Though some audiences admired its originality, others attacked its immorality. This first American edition marks the first outside of South Africa and precedes the UK first a year later. A fine book in a very good unclipped dust jacket, with a little rubbing to most edges and some fading to the spine panel.
LEROUX, Etienne. Seven Days at the Silbersteins. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1967. First US edition, first printing. The Afrikaans writer’s fourth novel, and one which ignited a heated debate when it won South Africa’s highest literary award, The Hertzog Prize. It follows one innocent man’s trip to a farm as a series of bizarre and often ritualistic practices are performed on him. Though some audiences admired its originality, others attacked its immorality. This first American edition marks the first outside of South Africa and precedes the UK first a year later. A fine book in a very good unclipped dust jacket, with a little rubbing to most edges and some fading to the spine panel.
LEROUX, Etienne. Seven Days at the Silbersteins. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1967. First US edition, first printing. The Afrikaans writer’s fourth novel, and one which ignited a heated debate when it won South Africa’s highest literary award, The Hertzog Prize. It follows one innocent man’s trip to a farm as a series of bizarre and often ritualistic practices are performed on him. Though some audiences admired its originality, others attacked its immorality. This first American edition marks the first outside of South Africa and precedes the UK first a year later. A fine book in a very good unclipped dust jacket, with a little rubbing to most edges and some fading to the spine panel.