Twilight of the Eastern Gods

First English Language edition, first impression (translated from the French edition).  192pp, with some black and white illustrations.  Grey cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine.  8vo.  Cloth very slightly pushed in at spine ends else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original dust jacket, not price clipped, just a little rubbed and bumped on extreme edges. A fictionalised account Ismail Kadare's experiences as a student at the Gorky Institute of World Literature - a strange factory of the intellect - in 1950s Moscow, set up to foster a new generation of socialist writers; an experience which brought him to the brink of giving up writing altogether.