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Translated from the original French by Dorothy Bussy , published by Secker and Warburg UK 1948 ( in the year following the author winning the Nobel Prize for Literature , 1947 )
Small format hardcover, in an attractive leaf print design cover. Age spotting and tanning to pages and to cover, offset marks to the front endpages.
A delicate boy growing up in Paris, Jerome Palissier spends many summers at his uncle's house in the Normandy countryside, where the whole world seems 'steeped in azure'. There he falls deeply in love with his cousin Alissa and she with him. But gradually Alissa becomes convinced that Jerome's love for her is endangering his soul. In the interests of his salvation, she decides to suppress everything that is beautiful in herself - in both mind and body...
