Autumn in Peking takes place in an imaginary desert called Exopotamie, where a train station and a railway line are under construction. Homes are destroyed to lay the lines, which turn out to lead nowhere. In part a satire on the reconstruction of postwar Paris, Vian's novel also conjures a darker version of Alice in Wonderland .
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Autumn in Peking takes place in an imaginary desert called Exopotamie, where a train station and a railway line are under construction. Homes are destroyed to lay the lines, which turn out to lead nowhere. In part a satire on the reconstruction of postwar Paris, Vian's novel also conjures a darker version of Alice in Wonderland .
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Like New. Clean, sound, gently read softcover. Top fore-edge corner mildly bumped. Elsewise overall fine. Originally published as L'Automne ŕ Pékin in 1947 by Éditions du Scorpion. Reissued in 2nd edition 1956 by Éditions de Minuit. L'Automne ŕ Pékin was highly regarded by critics, but never sold well. As far as I can tell there was no English edition until 2005 when this Paul Knobloch translation was issued in this paperback edition. Currently the most widely available edition is a German language translation, Herbst in Peking, published in 2018 by Wagenbach Klaus.
