The Conquerors

Andre Malraux. University of Chicago Press, $22 (212pp) ISBN 978-0-226-50290-8

Malraux based this tale of a Bolshevik revolutionary at odds with a European anarchist upon his experiences in China during the 1920 revolution. This ``lively translation'' of the 1928 French classic is still ``remarkably relevant,'' said PW in a 1976 review. Other Malraux novels now available from the University of Chicago Press include The Temptation of the West and The Walnut Trees of Altenburg . (Dec.)

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