The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

First edition in English. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 358. Quarter-bound black cloth over mid-blue paper boards, stamped in blue foil to spine. Jacket design by Vaughn Andrews (priced at $21.95 to front flap). Translated by Giovanni Pontiero. Originally published in 1984 as O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis by Editorial Caminho, Lisbon.

Ephemera tipped in. Former ownership inscription inked to flyleaf, o/w Fine.

Author's second book to be translated into English. Winner of the 1993 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Recipient of both the 1995 Camões Prize and the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature. A dialogue enacted between the title character, Ricardo Reis – one of the many heteronyms (imaginary characters) created by the Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa in order to enable him to write in differing styles – and the ghost of its author. "[T]he greatest of his novels." –New Statesman