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Copyright © Agustín Fernández Mallo, 2008
First published in Spain in 2009 by Alfaguara Editorial, Madrid
Translation copyright © Thomas Bunstead, 2018
This edition first published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2019, by arrangement with Literarische Agentur Mertin Inh. Nicole Witt e. K, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organisations, places and events are either the product of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales are entirely coincidental.
ISBN 978–1–910695–27–2
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