 It was subsequently translated and published throughout Europe and beginning in 2011, became a best seller in France, the Netherlands, Italy, Israel and the UK.His fourth novel, "Augustus" (Viking, 1972), a rendering of the violent times of Augustus Caesar in Rome, also remains in print.On the year of its release, it shared the National Book Award for Fiction with "Chimera" by John Barth, the first time that the award was split.