Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Originally published in 1988 in French. Translated and with an introduction by Catherine A. F. MacGillivray. Fiction based on political realities - a story which brings together two men, who never knew each other, but who knew the same suffering - a Russian Jewish poet who died in exile in Siberia and a South African political leader who survived years in prison.