This edition first published in 2018 in the UK by And Other Stories
Sheffield – London – New York
www.andotherstories.org

First published as La Resta by Editorial Demipage in 2014
Copyright © Alia Trabucco Zerán, 2014
English-language translation © Sophie Hughes, 2018

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transported in any form by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the publisher of this book. The right of Alia Trabucco Zerán to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

This book is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or places is entirely coincidental.

ISBN: 978-1-911508-32-8
eBook ISBN: 978-1-911508-35-9

Editor: Anna Glendenning; Copy-editor: Saba Ahmed; Proofreader: Sarah Terry; Typesetting and eBook: Tetragon, London; Cover Design: Tree Abraham.

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

This book was supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

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To my mother and father