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Copyright © 1971 by Éditions Gallimard, Paris

Translation copyright © 2021 by Donald Nicholson-Smith

Introduction copyright © 2021 by Gary Indiana

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Published in the French language as L’Affaire N’Gustro

Cover image: Mimmo Rotella, Homage to de Chirico, 1989; © 2021 Mimmo Rotella by SIAE

Cover design: Katy Homans

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Manchette, Jean-Patrick, 1942–1995, author. | Nicholson-Smith, Donald, translator. | Indiana, Gary, writer of introduction.

Title: The N’Gustro affair / Jean-Patrick Manchette; translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith; introduction by Gary Indiana.

Other titles: Affaire N’Gustro. English

Description: New York: New York Review Books, [2021] | Series: New York Review Books classics

Identifiers: LCCN 2020047544 (print) | LCCN 2020047545 (ebook) | ISBN 9781681375120 (paperback) | ISBN 9781681375137 (ebook)

Classification: LCC PQ2673.A452 A6913 2021 (print) | LCC PQ2673.A452 (ebook) | DDC 843/.914—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020047544

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020047545

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