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.

Signed to the title page by the Author.

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