The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro

First edition in English. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 186. Quarter-bound in dark blue cloth over orange paper boards, lettered in copper to spine. With a Note by the author. Translated by J. C. Patrick. Originally published as La Testa perduta di Damasceno Monteiro (1997) by Feltrinelli, Milan.

A fictionalised account of the true story of a man whose headless corpse was found in a park in Porto, Portugal. It later transpired that he had been murdered inside a Republican National Guard police station for which police Sergeant José dos Santos eventually was convicted and sentenced to 17 years' imprisonment. "[W]hen did you last find a novel this interesting?" –Michael Pye, The New York Times Book Review