EHRENBURG, Ilya; Leonid Borochowicz and Gertrude Flor, trans.

The Stormy Life of Lasik Roitschwantz: A Novel

New York: Polyglot Library, [1960]. First English Language Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth in red and black pictorial dust jacket; [8],311pp. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed, corners bumped, else Very Good or better.

Translation of Ehrenburg's novel Burnaya Zhizn' Lazika Roitschwantza, suppressed by Soviet censorship at the time of this publication. The work was written while Ehrenburg was a refugee from the Russian revolution, though he would eventually go on to become a leading Soviet author, awarded the Stalin Peace Prize in 1952.

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