First published in the German language as Die Hungrigen und die Satten by Eichborn Verlag in der Bastei Lübbe AG in 2018
First published in Great Britain in 2020 by
MacLehose Press
An imprint of Quercus Publishing Ltd
Carmelite House
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Copyright © 2018 by Timur Vermes
English translation copyright © 2020, Jamie Bulloch
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EBOOK ISBN 978 1 52940 053 3
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organisations, places and events are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.