Purchased this in Ubud, Bali (Indonesia), at the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2008, October. This is the First Edition in English. It was originally published in 1978, but has never been been published in English translation before that Festival. Sounds quite intriguing. And it's quite something else for me to read, but one can always benefit from trying a new thing once in a while;-)
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