When Another Country appeared in 1962 it caused a literary sensation : among the storm of reviews the Sunday limes said : 'Let our novelists read Mr Baldwin and tremble. There is a whirlwind loose in the land.' This masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in New York. Self-destructive, bad and brilliant, he draws us into a bohemian underworld pulsing with heat, music and sex, where desperate and dangerous characters betray, love and test each other to the limit.