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Originally published in 1996 in French as La Princesse du sang by Éditions Payot & Rivages.

Cet ouvrage a bénéficié du soutien des programmes d’aide à la publication de l’Institut français. This work, published as part of a program of aid for publication, received support from the Institut Français.

Cover image: Jack Pierson, (Jalousie), 2010; courtesy of Cheim & Read, New York

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Manchette, Jean-Patrick, 1942–1995, author. | Nicholson-Smith, Donald, translator. | Headline, Doug, writer of introduction. | Indiana, Gary, writer of afterword.

Title: Ivory pearl / by Jean-Patrick Manchette ; translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith ; introduction by Doug Headline ; afterword by Gary Indiana.

Other titles: Princesse du sang. English

Description: New York : New York Review Books, [2018] | Series: NYRB Classics Identifiers: LCCN 2017053685 (print) | LCCN 2017056920 (ebook) |

ISBN 9781681372112 (epub) | ISBN 9781681372105 (paperback)

Subjects: LCSH: Insurgency—Cuba—Sierra Maestra (Mountains)—Fiction. | Cuba—History—1933–1959—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Historical. | FICTION / Psychological.

Classification: LCC PQ2673.A452 (ebook) | LCC PQ2673.A452 P7513 2018 (print) | DDC 843/.914—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017053685