Vertigo

First edition in English. 8vo. Pp. xi, 263. B/w illus. Black cloth boards lettered in gilt to spine. Jacket photographs by Josef Sudek and Renate von Mangoldt (priced £16.99 to front flap). Translated from the German by Michael Hulse. Issued in a very small print run. Originally published as Schwindel. Gefühle. by Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt, in 1990.

Author's first novel and his third to be translated into English. A book about displacement and loss, constructed in four dizzying sections, it forms part of a loose trilogy together with The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn. Part fiction, part travelogue, it features an unnamed narrator as our guide on a journey through the past and across Europe, amid a spectrum of restless literary ghosts – Kafka, Stendhal, Casanova. "The most exciting, and most mysteriously sublime, of contemporary European writers." –James Wood, The New Republic