RITUALS

Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1983. 1st English language edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The first of the Dutch journalist and author Nooteboom's novels translated into English. Winner of the Pegasus Award for Literature, this copy inscribed by Nooteboom - with a sketch of a tiny flower - to American journalist and author Frances FitzGerald whose 1972 book "Fire in the Lake" won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, the Bancroft Prize for history, and the National Book Award in Contemporary Affairs. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket.