This is the first English translation of an erotic fable of love and betrayal which won the Premio Herralde de Novela, Spain's prestigious literary award. Alvaro Pombo creates a gallery of comic characters dominated by the boy Nicholas, whose cherubic appearance conceals a nature entirely corrupt. Spanish writer Alvaro Pombo has published three collections of poetry and five novels which include "Insignificant Pleasures", "Appearances" and "The Adopted Son".
- ISBN10 0701131934
- ISBN13 9780701131937
- Publish Date 21 November 1988
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 June 1992
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Chatto & Windus
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English