Copyright © 2002 by Andri Snær Magnason

English translation © 2012 by Victoria Cribb

Title of the original Icelandic edition: LoveStar

Published by agreement with Forlagið, www.forlagid.is

First English-language edition.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Andri Snær Magnason, 1973-

[Lovestar. English]

Lovestar : a novel / Andri Snær Magnason ; translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb. -- 1st English-language ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-1-60980-426-8 (pbk.) -- ISBN 1-60980-426-0

I. Cribb, Victoria. II. Title.

PT7511.A49L6813 2012

839’.6934--dc23

2012028468

Printed in the United States

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