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Published with the support of Read Russia, Inc., and the Institute of Literary Translation, Russia

Andrei Platonov’s Russian texts copyright © by Anton Martynenko, 2011

English publishing rights are acquired via FTM Agency, Ltd., Russia, 2016

Translation copyright © 2017 Susan Larsen for The Hurdy-Gurdy; Robert Chandler for Fourteen Little Red Huts and additional scene, The Hurdy-Gurdy; Jesse Irwin for Grandmother’s Little Hut

Introduction and notes copyright © Robert Chandler

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