The Water House

Translated by Dorothy Heapy. First American edition. 410pp. Hardback in dust jacket. With publicity info loosely inserted. Publisher’s blue half-cloth boards with silver lettering to spine. A fine copy. *** First American edition of this important novel set in Nigeria amongst a community of displaced Brazilians; the descendants of the freed slaves who had returned to Nigeria when slavery was abolished in Brazil. This translation first published in the UK in 1970.