First published in Great Britain 2010
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Copyright © 2008 by Éditions Gallimard
Translation copyright © 2010 by Frank Wynne
First published in France in 2008 by Éditions Gallimard under the title Le village de l’Allemand
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The author and Publishers gratefully acknowledge the copyright holders of the following texts: Primo Levi, ‘Unfinished Business’ (see p.v) and ‘Shema’ (see p. 60), from Collected Poems, translated from the Italian by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann (London: Faber & Faber, 1998). Reproduced by permission. Extract from If This Is a Man by Primo Levi, published by Jonathan Cape, reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Ltd
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