Miller s groundbreaking first novel， banned in Britain for almost thirty years， now reinvigorated in a new Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition. A penniless and as yet unpublished writer， Henry Miller arrived in Paris in 1930. Leaving behind a disintegrating marriage and an unhappy career in America， he threw himself into the low-life of bohemian Paris with unwavering gusto. A fictional account of Miller s adventures amongst the prostitutes and pimps， the penniless painters and writers of Montparnasse， Tropic of Cancer is an extravagant and rhapsodic hymn to a world of unrivalled eroticism and freedom. Tropic of Cancer s 1934 publication in France was hailed by Samuel Beckett as a momentous event in the history of modern writing . The novel was subsequently banned in the UK and the USA and not released for publication for a further thirty years.