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Translated by the author, with the help of John Purcell and Haim Watzman.

First published in Hebrew in Israel in 2011 by Kinneret, Zmora-Bitan, Dvir.

Previously published in a slightly different form in Great Britain in 2014 by Harvill Secker, a division of the Random House Group Ltd.

A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2015 by HarperCollins Publishers.

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