MALRAUX, André.

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Man's Fate. First edition in English of this novel set during the failed 1927 Communist revolution in Shanghai. It was first published in French the previous year, and won the 1933 Goncourt Prize.The dust jacket blurb prints a review by Leon Trotsky: "This is a novel of human destinies and personal passions to which the revolution imparts a breaking-point force. The individualist and pessimist rises up finally over individualism and over pessimism. Only a great superhuman purpose for which man is ready to pay the price of his life gives meaning to personal existence - this is the final import of the novel which is free from philosophic didacticism and remains from beginning to end a true work of art".A translation by Alistair MacDonald was published in London later the same year.

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