Signed, Mata Hari

Hardcover, fine condition. Dust jacket fine, with the original deckled page edges intact. Pages clean throughout. First edition, first printing. First edition, November 2007. Published by Little, Brown and Company, New York. Yannick Murphy is the author of the novels Here They Come, The Sea of Trees, The Call, and Signed, Mata Hari, and the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a National Endowment for the Arts award. Set in a Paris prison cell in October 1917, the novel imagines the final weeks of Margaretha Zelle — the Dutch-born dancer known to the world as Mata Hari — as she awaits trial on charges of espionage, the penalty for which is death by firing squad. To buy time and favour from her interrogators, she tells her life story in fragments: a bleak childhood in the Netherlands, a loveless marriage to a Dutch naval officer, a transformative passage to the Dutch East Indies, and her eventual reinvention as an artist's model, circus rider, and finally the celebrated temple dancer admired by Diaghilev and the crowned heads of Europe. ISBN 978-0-316-11264-2. Ships from Canada. International orders welcome through AbeBooks.