Walser, Martin. The Swan Villa. [Signed]. Translated from the German by Leila Vennewitz. First American Edition. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982. 14.5 x 21.5cm. 247 pages. Original quarter-clothbound hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Deckled edges. Excellent condition, other than very mild foxing to top edges. Signed by the author on front free endpaper.

Gottlieb Zürn is an undistinguished West German real estate salesman who is sure that his feelings of failure and helplessness would vanish if only he could represent the Swan Villa, his dream property, the empty mansion that seems to evoke all the elegance and expressiveness that he finds missing from his life. Martin Walser gives us a novel that is both entertaining social satire and a tender portrait of the continually disillusioned yet hopeful Gottlieb. [From jacket notes]

• Keywords: Autographs & Signed Books · Literature · Modern Literature
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9780030593727
• Inventory Number: 100216AB

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