The Mischief

Translated from the French by Frances Frenaye. First UK edition. 128pp. Hardback in dust jacket. Cloth faded, predominantly to head of spine area. Faint blue vertical line to lower board. Off-setting to endpapers. Jacket toned and slightly soiled; some chipping to edges with slight loss spine ends and head of upper panel. Original price to upper flap crossed out with new price added in pencil. **** The Mischief, the first novel by Algerian writer Assia Djebar (1936-2015), was originally published in French in 1957 as La Soif. This first English edition appeared in 1958. In 2005, Djebar became the first North African author to be elected to the Académie française.