Pleasured

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 373, [3 (blank)]. Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine; black endpapers. Black and lime-green dustwrapper features Henri Cartier-Bresson's photograph Looking East 'The Berlin Wall' 1963.

Signed by author to title-page. Lightly toned to textblock edges, else Fine.

Anointed as one of the Best of Young British Novelists by Granta magazine in 2003. Hensher's third book, set in pre-die Wende Berlin. Author's novels include Kitchen Venom, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, Other Lulus and The Mulberry Empire, which was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the WH Smith 'People's Choice' Award and highlighted by no fewer than a dozen reviewers as their 'book of the year'. "[A]t once cinematic, intimate and epic." –The Times