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War and Turpentine.

HERTMANS, Stefan (born 1951), [McKAY, David, translator].

London: Harvill Secker, 2016. [Great War Memoirs] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[8] 296. With occasional in-text photographic illustrations. Publisher's photographic soft covers, priced at £16.99. A fine, as-new copy. Originally published in Dutch in 2013, this is a semi-novelisation of the wartime experiences of the author's grandfather, who gave him his diaries and notebooks shortly before his death in 1981. Long-listed for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize. Item #56573

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