New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book by this author to be published outside of Spain - a philosophical thriller which combines myth, history and the author's imagination. "A vampire and the rational man who pursues him are at the whirling center of this eerie, elegant novel set in the Spain of the 1830's 9 a Spain convulsed by the Carlist civil wars." Translated from the Catalan by David H. Rosenthal. Index of proper names. 186 pp. ISBN: 0-394570588.