Unquiet Deaths
Patrick Parrinder, 3 September 1987
Two Lives and a Dream
by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated by Walter Kaiser.
Aidan Ellis, 245 pp., £9.95, July 1987,0 85628 160 3 Show More
by Marguerite Yourcenar, translated by Walter Kaiser.
Aidan Ellis, 245 pp., £9.95, July 1987,
The Wedding at Port-au-Prince
by Hans ChristophBuch, translated by Ralph Manheim.
Faber, 259 pp., £10.95, August 1987,0 571 14928 6 Show More
by Hans ChristophBuch, translated by Ralph Manheim.
Faber, 259 pp., £10.95, August 1987,
Saints and Scholars
by Terry Eagleton.
Verso, 145 pp., £9.95, September 1987,0 86091 180 2 Show More
by Terry Eagleton.
Verso, 145 pp., £9.95, September 1987,
Imperial Patient: The Memoirs of Nero’s Doctor
by Alex Comfort.
Duckworth, 206 pp., £10.95, June 1987,0 7156 2168 8 Show More
by Alex Comfort.
Duckworth, 206 pp., £10.95, June 1987,
“... has no sting and the grave no victory? In which the characters are allotted not one life but nine? Hans ChristophBuch’s The Wedding at Port-au-Prince announces its magic-realist affiliations and kinship to folktale and melodrama in the title of its opening section, ‘The Cayman’s Nine Lives’. Since this is a ... ”
