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Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First UK Edition. BC4 - An unread, tight, clean, sound copy with only very minor overall shelf wear. The dust jacket shows only very minor overall shelf wear. A novel set in the years before World War II in an Umbrian village in Italy. During the festa of the Madonna del Campo a traveling fair arrives with freaks, jugglers, dypsy dancers, and animals. the main character leaves his fields to see these sights himself. There he enclunters a beautiful young woman and a fateful and obsessive love begins that spans 50 years. The author is a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize. By the author of "Keepers of the House," "The Slow Train to Milan," "The Tiger," "The Bay of Silence," "Black Idol," "Joanna," "The Marble Mountain," "The High Place," and "Off the Rails." 209p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.