BREYTENBACH, Breyten. Return to Paradise.
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New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993.
8vo.; in grey cloth over yellow boards; with dust-jacket; jacket rubbed and with minor signs of wear.
First edition, inscribed by Breytenbach to Muldoon: “To Paul: with gratitude with great esteem with warm affection and friendship and with best regards – Breyten Breytenbach / 7th May 1996 / Princeton”.
Breytenbach was a South African poet and painter, well-known for his vocal criticism of the South African regime. This book is his account of a secret visit he made in 1975 to South Africa, while in exile, and for which he was imprisoned for seven years.