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Author: Kavan, Anna

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 3 November 2022 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of ‘the Little Clothbound Classics’ series.

Hardback | 240 pages
168 x 118 x 23 | 242g

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Set in a frozen world that is gradually being devastated by ever-encroaching ice, Anna Kavan’s masterwork follows one man’s pursuit of a mysterious silver-haired girl to the ends of the earth; to the end of everything.

‘Few contemporary novelists could match the intensity of her vision’ J.G. Ballard