On Foreign Ground by Quiroga, Eduardo

First Edition hardcover has light shelfwear to edges and covers. Pages tight and clean. DJ protected with mylar and not clipped. Retired library copy with usual marks/distinctions. Pocket removed. 91 pages. HardCover Binding. Year: 1986. ISBN: 0393024482. The narrator is a young Argentine lieutenant, weary, cold, trapped in the battle for the Falkland Islands. Enrique writes to the English girl he met and loved in Paris. He tells her of his feelings and experiences and of his life in middle-class Buenos Aires under a repressive regime, and through it all of his love for her.