Prisoner of Love | Hardback First Edition
Language: English
Published by Picador, uk, 1989
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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- Title
- Prisoner of Love | Hardback First Edition
- Author
- Genet, Jean
- Publisher
- Picador, uk
- Publication year
- 1989
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 033029962X
- ISBN 13
- 9780330299626
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 720 grams
- Dimensions
- 160 millimeters width by 240 millimeters height by 40 millimeters depth
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About the Author
Ahdaf Soueif is a novelist and a writer on political and cultural affairs. Her novel, The Map of Love, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1999. She was born in Egypt and lives in Cairo and London.
Barbara Bray (1924–2010) was a translator of twentieth-century French literature into English. She was an early champion of Marguerite Duras and Samuel Beckett, and also translated the work of Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Anouilh, and Alain Robbe-Grillet. Her translations of The Bridge of Beyond by Simone Schwarz-Bart, Monsieur Proust by Céleste Albaret, and Prisoner of Love by Jean Genet are available as NYRB Classics.
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