This electronic edition published in 2021 by Hoopoe
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Copyright © 1955 by Ihsan Abdel Kouddous
First published in Arabic in 1955 as La anam by Rose al-Yusuf
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English translation copyright © 2021 by Jonathan Smolin
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Hardback ISBN 978 1 649 03134 1
Paperback ISBN 978 1 649 03098 6
eISBN 978 1 649 03099 3
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