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A Japanese Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

Francis King SCANDAL by Shusaku Endo Peter Owen, f11.95, pp. 237 A highly successful and respectably married novelist is accused of sexual im- propriety by a woman who claims to......

The Death Of Hope

Caroline Moorehead THE DROWNED AND THE SAVED by Primo Levi Michael Joseph, £10.95, pp. 170 A, the end of The Truce, first pub- lished in Italy in 1963, Primo Levi writes about a......