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Hebrew copyright © 1949 by Noemi Smilansky and Zmora Bitan Publishers
English translation copyright © 2008 by Nicholas de Lange and Yaacob Dweck
Afterword copyright © 2008 by David Shulman and Ibis Editions
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English translation originally published in 2008 by Ibis Editions, Israel
English translation published in 2011 by Granta Books, Great Britain
Published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published by arrangement with the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature
First Farrar, Straus and Giroux edition, 2014
This volume reproduces the translation edited and published by Ibis Editions in 2008.
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Ibis Editions and the translators would like to thank Nitsa Ben-Ari, Isaac Zailer, and Gideon Nevo for their generous help. Special thanks as well to the Maor Foundation, Jerusalem and St. Louis.