New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1961. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in French Indo-China, a vivid picture of the area in the period when it was still dominated by the colonial families and of the early years of the political unrest which eventually resulted in the IndoChina War and the Vietnam War, by a writer who lived in the area since 1946. Translated from the French by Geoffrey Sainsbury.