The Garden where the Brass Band Played

Publisher’s original light blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Gift inscription to ffe: one line in red biro with translation in pensil underneath. In dust jacket which is creased and slightly chipped to edges. Sticker damage to lower panel. *** First English translation of Simon Vestdijk’s classic novel, which was first published in Dutch in 1950 as De koperen tuin. Simon Vestdijk (1889-1971) was a prolific and versatile Dutch author; it was said the he wrote “faster than God could read”. The semi-autobiographical The Garden where the Brass Band Played is one of his best loved novels.