"Although they're related, these three books have never much cared for each other, and it shows," says Marcel Cohen of his first three works, collected here for the first time. Highly praised on publication but long since out of print, these novels form no less than a trilogy. The cities of their titles might be real places, but only in so much as that suits the author's ends as he approaches them with a mix of reportage, hyperrealism, and a kind of waking dream. We are witness to a young writer feeling his way around, and the wanderings of a man in unyielding pursuit of himself.