To Adad and Rina

First American edition published in 2012 by

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Originally published by Swallow Editions (UK) in 2011

Arabic text copyright © Fadi Azzam, 2011
English translation copyright © Adam Talib, 2012
Swallow Editions symbol copyright © Root Leeb, 2011

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

'Azzam, Fadi, 1973-
[Sarmadah. English]
Sarmada / by Fadi Azzam ; translated from the Arabic by Adam Talib
—1st American ed. p. cm.

2011034746

Printed and bound in the United States of America

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