THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright © 2016 by Kathleen Spivack

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Ltd., Toronto.

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Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.

Portions of this book appeared, in slightly different form, as “The Rat” in The Chattahoochee Review and “The Tolstoi String Quartet” in Carpe Articulum.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Spivack, Kathleen, author.

Title: Unspeakable things : a novel / Kathleen Spivack.

Description: First Edition. | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015035393 | ISBN 9780385353960 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780385353977 (eBook)

Subjects: LCSH: Refugees—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Literary. | FICTION / Historical. | FICTION / Cultural Heritage.

Classification: LCC PS3569.P56 U96 2015 | DDC 813/.54—dc23 LC record available at lccn.loc.gov/​2015035393.

eBook ISBN 9780385353977

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Cover images: (violin) © Florilegius/Mary Evans; (envelope) Subjug/E+/Getty Images

Cover design by Kelly Blair

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