Rui S., a political historian, is unable to accept the circumstances of his life: his mother's death from cancer, his estrangement from his family, his rejection by his first wife and children, his political vacillations and his ambigious feelings for his second wife.
- ISBN10 0436200635
- ISBN13 9780436200632
- Publish Date 27 July 1992 (first published 1 January 1991)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 February 1995
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English