<DIV><P>"This work deserves the highest recognition . . . no-one can deny Juan Goytisolo is the main Spanish novelist on active service."—Carlos Fuentes</P><p>"A beautifully written metaphor for what it means to seek out the truth in a world often dominated by lies . . . this author, now 70 years of age, is one of the most brilliant of living writers."—<I>The Los Angeles Times</I></P><p>Twenty-eight storytellers—one for each letter in the Arabic alphabet—meet in a garden to tell the story of a poet, Eusebio, arrested in the early days of the Spanish Civil War. Eusebio, a friend of García Lorca and his circle, had escaped assassination and fled to North Africa.</p><p>Born in Barcelona, <B>Juan Goytisolo </B>left Spain in hatred of Franco. He now lives in Marrakesh, Morocco.</P></DIV>