You Must Know Everything

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8x5x1. First printing. Jacket edges rubbed, minor tear to jacket spine head. 1969 Hard Cover. xv, 283 pp. A new collection of stories by the Russian master translated, for the first time, by Max Hayward and edited by Nathalie Babel. You Must Know Everything is one of Babel's earliest stories and even here you can see his masterful talent at storytelling, guiding the reader through what on the surface seems mundane but giving it the edge of reality and the unexpected that come with it.