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First published as L’airone in 1968

This translation published in Penguin Classics 2018

Text copyright © Giorgio Bassani, 1968

Translation copyright © Jamie McKendrick, 2018

The moral rights of the author and translator have been asserted

Cover photograph © Tony Vaccaro/akg-images

ISBN: 978-0-141-93896-7