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This translation first published in the United States of America by Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 1980

Published in Penguin Books 2020

Copyright © 1950 by Joseph Zobel

Translation copyright © 1980 by Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.

Foreword copyright © 2020 by Patrick Chamoiseau

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Foreword by Patrick Chamoiseau translated into English by Jeffrey Landon Allen and Charly Verstraet.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Names: Zobel, Joseph, author. | Warner, Keith Q., translator.

Title: Black shack alley / Joseph Zobel ; translated with an introduction by Keith Q. Warner ; foreword by Patrick Chamoiseau ; foreword translated by Jeffrey Landon Allen and Charly Verstraet.

Other titles: Rue Cases-Nègres. English

Description: New York : Penguin Books, [2020] | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019022819 (print) | LCCN 2019022820 (ebook) | ISBN 9780143133957 (paperback) | ISBN 9780525505730 (ebook)

Classification: LCC PQ3949.Z6 R813 2020 (print) | LCC PQ3949.Z6 (ebook) | DDC 843.9/14—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019022819

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019022820

Cover illustration: Willian Santiago

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