Search Results: the land and the flesh by potrc ivan

Near Fine. 1988. Softcover. Looks never read. Slovene contemporary literature collection, Vilenica. Translated by Harry Leeming. Life in a village in the Haloze Hills, whereby the hero of the novel, Juzek, tell his story in jail where he landed after a crime of passion. Potre "unravels all the human problems of a backward village doomed to forcible arousal into a new world that is not less problematic than the old world condemned to extinction" .

London: Peter Owen, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/near Very Good. 1st printing. Translated from the Slovene by H. Leeming. Grey cloth boards stamped in red on the spine. A clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding and unclipped dust jacket. The protected dust jacket is a little soiled and sunned at the spine.