Copyright © 2007 by Éditions de l’Olivier
Translation © 2010 by Geoffrey Strachan

First published in 2007 as Le dernier frère by Éditions d’Olivier, Paris. This English translation first published in Great Britain by MacLehose Press in 2010.

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