Man's Fate by Andre Malraux is a 360-page paperback published by The Modern Library New York by Random House, Inc., first published in 1934, this copy published in 1961.  Inside, the pages are tanning.  Else, the book is in fair condition.  This is a reader's copy.

From the First Paragraph

Should he try to raise the mosquito-netting?  Or should he strike through it?  Ch'en was torn by anguish:  he was sure of himself, yet at the moment he could feel nothing but bewilderment--his eyes riveted to the mass of white gauze that hung from the ceiling over a body less visible than a shadow, and from which emerged only that foot half-turned in sleep, yet living-human flesh.