Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st US, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A new translation of this powerful novel which looks at the demands and emptiness of marriage among those imprisoned by their pasts, originally published in 1953 in Germany by this Nobel laureate and under the title "Acquainted with the Night" in the US. Now translated from the German by Leila Vennewitz. Clean.