Vertigo

First US edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 263. Quarter-bound dark green cloth over grey paper boards, lettered in silver to spine. Dark green endpapers. B/w grainy photographs throughout. Jacket design by Semadar Megged (priced $23.95 to front flap). Translated from the German by Michael Hulse. 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